Some interesting insights on early Emacs in these annotated emails from Guy L Steele: https://gist.github.com/lispm/8c6783be2f5a3d41b7592ba3b2c453ea
The name was picked in 1976, and a number of concepts that still exist today were created! It mentions the kill ring, yanking, and even the same keybindings for them!
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I've added some new keybindings to deadgrep.el, so I split the shortcut tables into two categories: https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep#keybindings
I've done this purely by intuition. Are there good rules or heuristics for deciding when more hierarchy is needed in information, I wonder?
I'm finding myself increasingly using "C-c LETTER" keybindings for my favourite Emacs commands. They're easy to type and work everywhere (any desktop environment, even inside a shell over SSH).
Using multiple keyboards so you can have *even more* keybindings in Emacs! https://jordekang.tk/posts/rus-kbd.html
