Yesterday’s post asked you to turn 26 lines of
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
into 26 lines of
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
by replacing the blanks with a series of 4 blanks.
The best Vim solution (13 keystrokes ignoring the file saving) on the VimGolf site uses a substitute operation to replace a single blank with 4 blanks. If we use the same strategy in Emacs we get
| 【Meta+%】 |
| 【␣ Return】 |
| 【␣ ␣ ␣ ␣ Return】 |
| 【!】 |
for 9 keystrokes. That’s good but if we replace 【␣ ␣ ␣ ␣】 with 【Ctrl+4 ␣】 we get it down to 7.
Update: 【Ctrl】 → 【Meta】