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From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net>
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At 12:19 PM 9/12/97 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote:
>Hoe the hell is a newbie supposed to know emacs key bindings?  They are
>documented internally in emacs, assuming you know that M- means meta, and
>that meta is <alt>, etc.  I don't like ee, I use vi almost exclusively,
>with some emacs for large jobs with multiple files, but I wouldn't expect
>a new user to know how to use either of them.

I don't think it's as important to have a set of bindings that are already
well know as it is to be able to get to the relevant help quickly and easily.

K.S.