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From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: assorted questions
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Date: 22 Sep 88 23:51:24 GMT
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In article  mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte) writes:

| 2) When you are at the bottom (top) of a buffer and execute scroll-up
| (scroll-down), emacs responds with "End of buffer" ("Beginning of
| buffer").  Wouldn't it make a bit more sense (at least from the
| users point of view) to go to the bottom (top) of the file?

I vote for this one!!! It makes more sense by a long shot. It is more
instinctive to hit Page Up a couple of times than to try and hit
Meta-SHIFT-< (what with remembering which shift keys to use...:-)

While we're on the subject, when I first started using emacs, I thought
I would get used to ^K not deleting the newlines. Needless to say I
still haven't gotten use to this: I generally delete paragraphs and
other such regions by hitting ^K a few times (which is more
instinctive, I think, than blocking it off), and the "stutter" effect
is aggravating. Especially since this means that M-5 C-k does not mean
the same thing as C-k C-k C-k C-k C-k ... 

Any suggestions for fixes?

| 5) An emacs manual would be REALLY nice to have.

It's in the package! online! in a dozen happy formats! 

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