[ESS] Keyboard shortcut - is there a principle behind them?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Thanks a lot everybody - the key bindings in emaaqcs are (a little b
it) clearer now.

Cheers

Rainer

On 12/07/13, 07:35 , Matthew Fidler wrote:
> See
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html
>
>  On Dec 6, 2013 3:02 AM, "Rainer M Krug" <Rainer at krugs.de 
> <mailto:Rainer at krugs.de>> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> one alternative subject could be "because it is Friday"...
> 
> I am using org-mode and ess regularly, and I use quite a few
> keyboard shortcuts, but each time I read about a new one, I am
> wondering: why the heck these specific (default!) keyboard
> shortcuts?
> 
> I am not asking why keyboard sequence, but e.g. why "export" in org
> is C-c e and why tangle is C-c C-v t, and so on.
> 
> In other words: I am trying to *understand* why C-c and not C-o, 
> because I have tremendous problems to remember the shortcuts - if
> I would know that there is s tree structure, where each following
> key narrows it down to further *thematically linked* commands, it
> would make it easier to learn these.
> 
> Any insight into this? Or is there a emacs function which returns
> a random keyboard shortcut for a given function (some emacs
> shortcuts really seem to be that way...).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
> 
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