Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system
by frank2 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:33AM
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Sure, but then every time the user does anything that might scroll the point off the screen, he has to remember to C-<SPC> C-<SPC> first. Installing a new habit that has to activate before such a wide range of editing operations can take a lot of time, during which the user is less productive because part of his attention is devoted to installing the new habit.
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Re:Emacs: The most successful malleable system
by elwell on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:24PM
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You're right. In practice I usually C-/ (undo) C-g / (redo) to get back to where I was; which is something you can do after you've lost your place in the file, but it assumes to previously made some change in that location.