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vim and xargs are less commonly used commands? Seems to be a mix here of small unix-y utilities and larger programs (like vim and tmux). Good stuff to know though.

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FTA: vim: attack yourself

Emacs user?

Nah, he's a vim user IIRC. He has a really good vim tutorial on his site [0].

[0]: http://www.danielmiessler.com/study/vim/

> > FTA: vim: attack yourself

> Emacs user?

As holyjaw mentions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7253126), this appears to be a vimmer's self mockery, rather than an Emacsy attack:

http://www.danielmiessler.com/blog/categories/vim

Emacs User at Work:

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/029/8/3/emacs_user_at...

I still don't get how emacs ever got that image..

I never have to press more than two keys at a time, which is also true for vim..

Then you are doing it wrong. ;)

But seriously: How do you do common things such as `query-replace{-regex}` or `indent-region`? Have you rebound them all?

Nope.. Haven't rebound anything. But strangely I very rarely need either of them, so haven't bothered so far to remember the shortcut (however I would indeed rebind them if that were to change).

However.. point taken. The default bindings for those two functions are terrible (at least with a german keyboard layout).

M-x qxp<ENTER>

ido-mode is essential. :)

Well, you never have to, but it can be useful, e.g. with C-M-x instead of M-x eval-defun RET. I've never yet had to bind a chord with more than two meta keys, but considering that even Photoshop has three-meta chords (e.g. C-M-S-s, File/Save for Web...), I don't really see the problem.

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