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"DPH" <rally2xs@compuserve.com> wrote in message
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> Yah, whatever... <G>  Just got tired of looking up the same command
> for the 13th time, or getting stuck in some state that I didn't know
> how to get back to where I was and then spending 35 minutes rummaging
> around thru the help and then just finally getting out of the program
> and starting over, etc.  Gimmie a pull-down menu every time...  I'll
> learn the key combos by seeing it there for 500 or so times...  and
> then just start using it, but without any time lost having to look it
> up again... and again... and again...
>
> I was gonna build a cheat sheet of commands until someone told me
> there are 100's of them.  Knowing I'd never memorize 'em all, I went
> back to what I was using and uninstalled emacs.

You don't have to build a cheat sheet.  Emacs has it built-in.  Control-H b
describe-bindings does it for you.