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From: msc_wdqn@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Q Naiman)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Emacs
Message-ID: <3397@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 25 Nov 89 01:09:39 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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I am new to gnu emacs and I am wondering how the experts deal with certain
problems in emacs. For example,

   1. It seems like a pain to type ESC-X goto-line to move the cursor to
      another line. Is it advisable to create one`s own key sequence to do
      this, or is there some trick I do not know about for getting the 
      cursor. The command ESC-X < followed by ESC-number of lines CTRL-n
      would work, but that's a lot of typing!

   2. In the manual to this wonderful PD Software it is indicated that 
      global search and replace commands are not needed as often in emacs
      as they are in other editors. Why is this? Am I missing some fundamental
      principle? Again, is it possible to replace the command ESC-X 
      replace-string ... with a command with less keystrokes?

Any hints or references to hints would be greatly appreciated.

Dan Naiman
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
msc_wdqn@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu