The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

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In article <1182661040.286559.150880 at q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Twisted  <twisted0n3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2:04 am, Robert Uhl <eadmun... at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

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> Apparently because you find the switch second nature, despite its not
> being the obvious (which is ctrl-tab, to switch between documents in
> an MDI app). Cheat sheet? Memorized with painstaking months of hard
> effort? Thanks for proving my point, either way.

Not really ragging on you, however it seems, but this is a pet
peeve of mine, and I have a few minutes, and this thread is
already pretty much out of control, so ....

Painstaking months of hard effort?  You know, I started out in
the days before GUIs, so I have experience with cheat sheets,
but I don't remember ever being given one and being told that
there would be a quiz in a week, or a month, or whatever.
Instead, I used the cheat sheet at first, and over the course
of the first few -- hours, weeks, I don't know -- found that I
needed it less and less, as the commands I actually used in my
daily work made their way into my memory.  (Does that mean that
I didn't memorize all the commands on the cheat sheet?  Maybe.
But the ones I didn't learn were ones I didn't need.)

To me it's similar to "memorizing" a phone number by dialing
it enough times that it makes its way into memory without
conscious effort.  I suspect that not everyone's brain works
this way, and some people have to look it up every time.
For those people, I can understand why something without a
GUI could be a painful experience.  "YMMV", maybe.  

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B. L. Massingill
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