[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Peter Corlett]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:43:40PM +0100, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:
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> Surely that just moves the cursor? How many keys do you need to yank that
> in to a buffer? Frankly it looks lame, don't you have some sort of numeric
> prefix to the search or movement keys?

Oh, stick C-space in front of that first to select rather than just move. To
copy the selection afterwards, C-w C-y (or Apple-C in Aquamacs Emacs). Yes,
there are numeric prefixes available, but it doesn't save keypresses until 5
in that example.

In bog standard GNU Emacs, there's no "copy" as such, you do a kill then
yank. If you want it as a single command, just bind it to a handy spare key
(as the Aquamacs developers did.)

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