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Becoming productive with Emacs should take you a couple of weeks. At least that's what it took my dumb 19 year old self back in the day. Mastering emacs? I don'
by mkl95 4y ago
Becoming productive with Emacs should take you a couple of weeks. At least that's what it took my dumb 19 year old self back in the day. Mastering emacs? I don't think you should be expected to do such thing.
- BeFlatXIII 4y ago> At least that's what it took my dumb 19-year-old self back in the day That's the one thing I miss about being a teen: few enough other options that I'd stick to things to mastery instead of giving up and reverting to the tools I already know once things hit my frustration threshold.
- User23 4y agoBack in my larval stage I adopted Emacs because it was considerably more “intuitive” than vi and wasn’t a joke like pine. I found it suitable for writing C and xpilots[1] configs out of the box and went from there. It did help that I was mostly in a college CS lab so there were people to ask questions. [1] http://www.xpilot.org/about/ http://www.xpilot.org/about/