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Sarah Bernadette Kelly <sbk98 at uow.edu.au> writes:

> Didn't mean to "dismiss Emacs out of hand". I must admit that the editor
> I was introduced to was vi, and hence I'm mildly biased :)

I use both.  I was originally a vi user.

> Oh, and I really don't like control sequences. I get RSI in my
> little finger :)

Hmm.  It reminds me of a soc.biter who has muscular pain in her hands
and so types everything in lower case; she doesn't use Emacs, but I
do, so I can reformat her posts to make them easier on my eyes.

I don't know about RSI, but I always use my pinky to hit Escape, too,
so I'm not sure what the gain is.  (Escape is also pretty frequently
used in Emacs, though usually dressed up as a meta key.)

> What is the BBDB? Where can I find it? etc etc

It's the Insidious Big Brother Database; it's an elisp package (ie it
runs under emacs) and is available as the `bbdb' package in Debian.
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