On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article <mailman.1528.1357065822.29569.python-l...@python.org>,
> Mitya Sirenef <msire...@lightbird.net> wrote: > >> Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-) >> I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of them >> fit into a consistent scheme which makes them much easier to remember > > At some point, it becomes muscle memory, which means you don't even > consciously know what you're typing. Your brain just says, "delete the > next three words" and your fingers move in some way which causes that to > happen. This is certainly true with emacs, and I imagine it's just as > true with people who use inferior editors :-) > > I used to do a bunch of pair programming with another emacs power user. > Every once in a while, one of us would say something like, "What did you > just do?", when the other performed some emacs technique one of us was > not familiar with. Invariably, the answer would be, "I don't know", and > you would have to back up and recreate the key sequence. Or, just run > C-? l, which tells you the last 100 characters you typed. > > Case in point. I use C-? l moderately often, when I make some typo and > I'm not sure what I did wrong. But, despite the fact that my fingers > now how to perform "show me the last stuff I typed", I had to go hunting > to find the actual keystrokes which does that when typing the above > paragraph :-)
That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though if I actually needed to use it, it pops right out, so to find out, I have to try it and then I say, "of course, dammit, I use this command 50 times every single day!"; so it's a curious case of one-directional memory. <subliminal 1-nanosecond BLINK TAG comment="hope this works, fingers crossed" content="let's face it, Vim is BETTER as it has always been!"> -- Lark's Tongue Guide to Python: http://lightbird.net/larks/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
