On the keyboard alone emacs has always offered a full set of editing possibilities. Generally several techniques will accomplish the same goal for any editing task. In the X environment the choice is enlarged still further with a new group of mouse-oriented visual alternatives. From these options you must select the way that you like to solve a given editing puzzle best. Consider this Shakespearean fragment: 1. Full fathom five thy father lies; 2. Of his bones are coral made; 3. Those are pearls that were his eyes: 4. Nothing of him that doth fade, 5. But doth suffer a sea-change 6. Into something rich and strange. 7. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: 8. Ding-dong. 9. Hark! now I hear them-- 10. Ding-dong, bell! The following fragment has been typed with some errors: 1. Full fathiom five tyy father lies; 2. These are pearls that were his eyes: 3. Of his bones are coral made; 4. Nothin of him that doth fade, 5. But doth susffer a sea-change 6. Into something rich and strange. 7. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: 8. Ding=dong. 9. Hard! now I hear them-- 10. Ding-dong, bell! Use only the keyboard to answer the following: How many ways can you think of to move the cursor to the spelling errors? Once the cursor is on or near the errors, how many ways can you think of to fix them? Lines 2 and 3 are transposed. How many ways can you think of to correct this situation?
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