> Thanks for the work you did on the KDE section. Nice one! Did you > find some clever Emacs way of doing things?
You're welcome. There is likely a clever Emacs way of doing anything, and part of my work on a new Emacs "PFV" mode will be intended to be yet another demonstration of the all-embracing power of Emacs. The "work" I did on that section was more trivial than I had in mind for the mode and shows room for yet more automation. The mode gives a WYSIWYG interface to editing a (new or existing) table at a given URL which it then converts to markup. The hardest part is making the UI useful yet unobtrusive. I am eager to address with this mode anyone's pet peeves on the PFV process. I will do some more work on it and post it here in a few days. I only hope that more free software users will appreciate Emacs in a more timely way than me. I have used it on and off for years, but only recently have I realized its power: what a wise (and fun!) investment it is. It is a remarkable marriage of an easy Lisp dialect and a rich UI that has benefitted from decades of use, reflection, and improvement: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html If you have, say, a half hour to spend sometime, do take a fun tour: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ Another way of looking at it is that it has been and will continue to be a central interface to GNU software and that RMS himself works on it nearly every day. Perhaps what finally convinced me to plunge in was the fine Emacs Lisp tutorial. Although the tutorial is on the http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro.html page and is in book form, the best online use of it IMO is to just take it from within Emacs itself. E.g., install the emacs and emacs-lisp-intro packages. You can easily read it and evaluate its example code from within your Emacs session itself. What distinguishes this tutorial from perl, python, etc. materials is what distinguishes Emacs itself: the *interface* of Emacs. The tutorial is, in part, a gentle introduction to playing with this interface. This intro was good enough to keep me engaged, despite my familiarity with Lisp. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
