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From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: Shutdown: EMACS vs. vi
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Date: 3 Jun 91 13:18:18 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.

Anyone who's not test-driven one of the partial completion packages
floating around should do themselves a favor and do so.  Partial
completion lets you abbreviate not only whole commands, such as
"insert-f" for "insert-file", but also the words that make up a
command, so you can just type "ins-f" for "insert-file".  Or, say,
"l-d-a" for "lisp-directory-apropos", which segues nicely into:

                 Emacs Lisp Code Apropos -- "partial"


partial-comp (1.04)
                  90-07-02
     David Gillespie, <daveg@csvax.caltech.edu>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/partial-comp.el.Z
     Extended completion for the Emacs minibuffer

completer (3.02)  91-05-08
     Chris McConnell, <ccm@cs.cmu.edu>
     katmandu.mt.cs.cmu.edu:/pub/ilisp/completer.el
     Partial completion for commands and pathname components.

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