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I'm curious; do you have experience (or know of someone who does) of learning Emacs by using it like Notepad and slowly learning the keyboard shortcuts by looki
by rubergly 16y ago
I'm curious; do you have experience (or know of someone who does) of learning Emacs by using it like Notepad and slowly learning the keyboard shortcuts by looking up things in menus? I'm skeptical that this approach would work; I think there are a lot of basic (non-obvious) things specific to Emacs that you need to know to use it well. If you just use it like Notepad and lookup shortcuts for copying/pasting, then I predict that you would just end up using it like Notepad.
- lukeschlather 16y agoDefinitely. It was easily three months before I learned about apropos. Otherwise it was menus and C-h k.
- melling 16y agoOnce you discover a handful of useful commands/features, you'll appreciate it more. These a few of my favorites: * Unlimited undo/redo - C-_ * Incremental search forwards/backwards - C-s/C-r * Macros - C-x ( C-x ) * Query-Replace: M-% * "Hippie" Expand - M-/ * M-x tetris -- Actually has an enjoyable game of Tetris.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoThis has pretty much been my process with it. I started using it sometime last year. Fumbled completely for a day or so, but started out just using menus and slowly changing to keyboard commands. That, and googling when I wanted some behavior that wasn't immediately clear to me. What I need to do now is read a fairly substantial book/site to tell me about the things I don't even know I would want to know. The Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns.