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> I saw a couple video demos recently, and was horrified that it seemed one had to memorize a dozen key binding shortcuts to really use it.

Whoa! You have to _learn_ something to use it well? Yikes. Not for me.



conventions are a good things so you can minimise relearning.

Learn emacs once and use ratpoison, readline and rlwrap everywhere.



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