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		Sirenos on June 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atom 1.0 > Emacs has the benefit of decades of Huffman coding for its keystrokes, and I appreciate that. Huffman coding, emacs, keystrokes, ... what?

jfb on June 26, 2015 [–]

The most commonly used functions in Emacs are assigned to the shortest key bindings.

Sirenos on June 26, 2015 | [–]

Ah, that totally flew over my head. Thanks!

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