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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Shutdown: EMACS vs. vi
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Date: 3 Jun 91 00:09:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jun02.184943.8202@convex.com> datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:

   >programmer. I don't wont to write "what-line" (9 keystrokes).

   10 or 11, actually, counting the M-X.

I get 9 too.  M-x wha<SPACE>l<SPACE><RETURN>.  You could bind that to
a key if you frequently use it.  I have bound C-x C-l to goto-line,
and I use C-x l for count-lines-page(I don't use  that often).
  
   That's always annoyed me about gnumacs as well, but I haven't taken the time
   to fix it.  Microemacs, for example, gives you that information with the
   buffer-position function, which is bound by default to C-X= (two keystrokes).
   I believe that Unipress's does as well.

It's a simply fix to rebind any key.  Would you really use another
editor that doesn't have an undo or autosave just because you don't
like one or two key bindings in GNU Emacs?

-Mike