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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by frosted-flakes on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:39AM (#28097225)
Using non-standard notation for describing keyboard shorcuts doesn't help.
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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by anyfoo on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:21PM (#28100700)
This is the notation that emacs has been using forever, and also displays to the user, so every user should be well comfortable with it. It even says “Press C-x C-c to exit emacs” at startup.
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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by frosted-flakes on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:47PM (#28100868)
It's still non-standard, and is yet another barrier to adoption.
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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by opan on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:22PM (#28102422)
I found it handy and I often use it outside of emacs as well when describing shortcuts to people. Mainly C-something for ctrl.
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