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YOU know what would be really useful? To have an expert Emacs user do a screencast of himself doing standard programming stuff. I think that would make it rea

by bprater 18y ago

YOU know what would be really useful? To have an expert Emacs user do a screencast of himself doing standard programming stuff. I think that would make it really obvious how these types of editors are.

wheels 18y ago
Well, you'd need to have some way to do quick keyboard tracking with the screencast. Just seeing all of the text get highlighted and re-indented wouldn't do a lot. I'm not sure how much more it would help if you could see that "[ctrl-x], [ctrl-h], [esc], x, indent-region" was typed...
- capablanca 18y ago
  There's actually an extension by Michael Weber that might be helpfull for recording screecasts: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/ http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/
mixmax 18y ago
I thought the exact same thing. Would be really interesting to see how emacs is used by someone skillful. Anyone with a webcam up for the job ? :-)
silentbicycle 18y ago
Watching the screencast for SLIME (a common lisp mode) was what convinced me to switch to Emacs. (It may very well convince you to avoid it, but it'll be an honest impression of what Emacs looks like with a power user.) Link in the comments from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990
imgabe 18y ago
I learned a lot from this screencast when I was first starting to use emacs. It is geared specifically towards lisp programming with SLIME, but you do get a good look at an emacs expert doing some programming, as well as a look at his .emacs file which is always very helpful. http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050728.html http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050728.html There's another film by the same person about using UncommonWeb (a lisp web framework) that has more emacs goodness. Note the UCW tutorial is probably somewhat out of date as the framework has changed a bit since then. http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050727.html http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050727.html

by bprater 18y ago

wheels 18y ago

Well, you'd need to have some way to do quick keyboard tracking with the screencast. Just seeing all of the text get highlighted and re-indented wouldn't do a lot. I'm not sure how much more it would help if you could see that "[ctrl-x], [ctrl-h], [esc], x, indent-region" was typed...

capablanca 18y ago
There's actually an extension by Michael Weber that might be helpfull for recording screecasts: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/ http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/

mixmax 18y ago

I thought the exact same thing. Would be really interesting to see how emacs is used by someone skillful. Anyone with a webcam up for the job ? :-)

silentbicycle 18y ago

Watching the screencast for SLIME (a common lisp mode) was what convinced me to switch to Emacs. (It may very well convince you to avoid it, but it'll be an honest impression of what Emacs looks like with a power user.) Link in the comments from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230990

imgabe 18y ago

I learned a lot from this screencast when I was first starting to use emacs. It is geared specifically towards lisp programming with SLIME, but you do get a good look at an emacs expert doing some programming, as well as a look at his .emacs file which is always very helpful. http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050728.html http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050728.html There's another film by the same person about using UncommonWeb (a lisp web framework) that has more emacs goodness. Note the UCW tutorial is probably somewhat out of date as the framework has changed a bit since then. http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050727.html http://bc.tech.coop/blog/050727.html