Skip to content  Effective Editing I: Movement  by mickey on
January 14th, 2011  If you can master movement and editing in
Emacs, you have effectively conquered two of the biggest
productivity boosters available to you. Emacs has unrivaled
movement and editing capabilities and aside from enabling Ido
Mode, few other things in Emacs will, pound-for-pound, give you
a bigger productivity boost.   Emacs has grown organically —
some might say uncontrollably like kudzu — over its more than 30
year history, and in that time it has been honed and sharpened
as a tool for effective text and source code editing. I’ve met
lots of IDE users who use the mouse to edit text or access menu
options, even though — and they realize this — it is very
ineffective. But old habits die hard, and when your IDE’s most
advanced text editing capability is a poorly-emulated Brief mode
it’s no wonder people can’t be bothered.  The best way to
maximize your productivity is to eliminate common bottlenecks
like learning how to touch type and,