Re: Issues with emacs

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> writes:

> Someone in this thread mentioned the M-< and M-> keys to go to the beginning
> and end of the buffer.  I never knew about those, but I wrote my own command
> bound to C-e that goes to the end of the line when invoked once, then to the
> end of the buffer if invoked twice in a row*.  And I was very happy with the
> result.  I use IDEs that provide more functionality, but I'm always annoyed
> when I want to redefine a command and I can't.  I understand that this is
> very atypical of today's computer user, but I still have difficulty putting
> myself into the mindset of someone who isn't even interested in learning how
> to modify a program's behavior.

allout.el offers this same C-a/C-e functionality.  You can use it even if you
don't have an outline in the buffer: M-x allout-mode.

John