I've decided to try Emacs.

[LoTeK]

[ichbinsisyphos]

They came up with computer graphics as Ronald Reagan invented the internet. How did you get such an idea? A detail I remember was that they bought Xerox technology to build their graphics system on.

[aidanjt]

[LoTeK]

ok, I just remember hearing that they were before microsoft with mouse and GUI, but of course they stole it like bsd.. but hey, apples are sooo good, not just the software, they have better hardware... lol

ronald reagan maybe had invented the internet along with his star wars satelite defense network

[Prenj]

You all are missing the point.

Without apple, all of that stuff would be sitting in Xerox somewhere, and we would be amazed by the fact that you can have 320x200 console window.

Steve Jobs was genious at putting things into context. That's why his stuff sells, because great majority of people agrees. Geeks with aspergers are just angry cos chicks don't dig linux.

[LoTeK]

well, without geeks with aspergers we wouldn't have anything technological... and the great majority don't agree, they are just lazy followers and buy a mac because everybody else have one and you are not cool without one (at least in some social environments)

[Prenj]

[NotQuiteSane]

[LoTeK]

I know what you mean.. it's like atheists that have their own believe, but it's different here anyway because if one does something or buy's something that one truly like and that didn't came from the "outside", the question if it's cool or not doesn't even appear. obviously apple users like their apple because of "outside influences" and most of them have absolutely no idea how a computer works (I know it, because two very good friends of mine are such apple users) but tell how good an apple computer is, that the hardware is better and so on...

[LoTeK]

[NotQuiteSane]

[LiamOS]

This thread is great.

On topic, I do hope we get a long spiel from BK about his fun with emacs.


Vim is the love of my life; so much so that many of my emails contain :w a few times, or end with
Regards,
Liam:wq
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[Shadow Skill]

ctrl-h a will allow you to look up commands matching a word or regular expression. (I don't think it uses perl style regex for this command though.)
ctrl-h k will tell you what function a given key combination is bound to.

Don't bother trying to memorize all those key bindings all at once. Focus instead on learning the function names and let the key bindings sink in over time.
The space bar completes names in the minibuffer no need to reach for the tab key though that works too.

http://www.emacswiki.org/ Probably has an answer. Use this site, love this site.

[dmitchell]

[BoneKracker]

[notageek]

[BoneKracker]

So far, I cannot bring myself to do it. I did 'emerge -pv emacs' and sat there looking at it, thinking, "Do I really want to do this?"
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[notageek]

Chicken Tandoori.
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[woddfellow2]

A warning: If you want to use the graphical Emacs with the daemon/emacsclient as many do, I recommend compiling it with the lucid toolkit instead of GTK, due to a bug in GTK that makes it unreliable.

My /etc/portage/package.use contains the following:

[Crooksey]

[BoneKracker]

Why would you use a Java-based IDE if you're a python web developer?
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[Shadow Skill]

[energyman76b]

[notageek]

This is like porn for you, isn't it?
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[LoTeK]