On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:47:55AM -0400, David Megginson wrote: <snip lots of good emacs p1mping ;-) > > On the down side, Emacs takes a while to learn; on the up side, once > you've learned it, you can do anything you want extremely fast (I've > amazed customers during onsite visits by making complex changes to > large programs or document collections in less than a minute where > they'd budgetted days for the work). > One of the other good thigns about emacs is that it's well documented, and it really is largely /self/ documenting - even if you only ever use the M-x <long command name> stuff, it still gives you a very good idea of what a command does, and with tab completion you can browse through all the cvs-* or tags-* or whatever and get an overview of your options.
emacs is a really remarkable piece of software, really . . . Simon -- PGP public key Id 0x144A991C, or ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/himi/himi.asc (crappy) Homepage: http://bg77.anu.edu.au doe #237 (see http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS) My DeCSS mirror: ftp://bg77.anu.edu.au/pub/mirrors/css/
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