On 20/11/2020 15:25, o1bigtenor wrote: > I have tried to use emacs and found that I could not find a reasonable search > tool , at least one that I could find AND use and so that dropped emacs from > my use list.
Do you mean you could not find _one_ search tool but you found several extremely powerful tools and you were overwhelmed by the capability of Emacs? :-) Saying that Emacs does not have a reasonable search tool is akin to say that the ocean does not have enough water (or Lisp does not have enough parentheses, to keep the metaphor on the subject). > I'm not trying to deprecate emacs - - - - I've been told > that I does > have EVERYTHING (including the kitchen sink) but the same person, himself > an aficionado, suggested I not pursue its use. Without knowing the reasoning that culminated in that advice it is difficult to say if it was a wise suggestion. Learning Emacs is an excellent investment if you foresee spending a significant amount of time editing text and getting into activities or which your productivity and satisfaction depend on how fast you can morph bytes in a file to conform to an idea in your head through your fingers. If that is not the case, maybe, the time spent learning to use the tool would not have a positive return. Other reasons for learning Emacs are Org and Magit, but these may solve problems that even a more restricted set of person has (incidentally a set that is mostly a subset of the former). Cheers, Dan -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/4e9e61a8-8dd6-9b7e-a443-3d0fdaf9c3b1%40grinta.net.
