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Ha! I used flashcards to memorize a fair number of Emacs shortcuts.

It's not always that easy to find - even with C-h a or C-h m, etc.

But the bigger benefit is even knowing that feature X exists and there is a key combination for it. I found flash cards useful because I would get an occasional "reminder" that X exists and I should use it more often!

A trivial example: flush-lines and keep-lines. I never knew these existed till I read them somewhere. I put it in my flashcards, and over time I would remember its existence and use it more and more.



Wow! I have tried to figure out how to grep buffers many times over the last 30 years. Now I know, thanks! And it's going right into Anki :)




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