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Like most applications, it uses Control-X Control-F and Control-XĬontrol-S, this seems rather counter-productive in the beginning, but

You will notice, however, that in time it isįaster to use shortcuts, and leave your hands on the keyboard.Įmacs uses a lot of double shortcuts, so instead of Alt-F and Alt-S, starting out, that is rather annoying,īut in time you'll notice you start to use the mouse less and less,Īll the basic things can be done, with the mouse, from the menu, openįile, save file, etc. Plastic pieces), but in the long run, you can do more with it.Įmacs is heavy on shortcuts. Lego is harder to begin with (you start with a box with little But, you might compare it to a regular toy and The absolute minimum you need to know about Emacs, to be able to doĪnything, is more then you need to know about many otherĪpplications.
