A lecture which I personally am interested in is one in which the lecturer
(who must be an Emacs expert) explain how to use Emacs for a long time
without losing one's sanity.
I tried to use GNU Emacs or XEmacs several times and each time encountered
one thing or another that annoyed me so much that I had to stop using it.
And I could not find anything in the help system. But I know it is a good
editor because many people swear by it.
So if anyone wants to give this lecture, please answer to the list.
By anyone I refer to Muli, but it's possible that others are expert
enough to give it. I, on my part, have lost hope of getting used to it on
my own.
So, Muli or whoever, just that you may agree now that we have dropped a
file on you ("hipalnu aleikha tiq"), here are some motivational reasons:
1. That way you can prove to the world what a real man's editor should be
like.
2. That way you may actually balance the percentage of emacs vs. vi users
in the Haifux Cabal. So far, I think it stands at 1 or 2 vs. the rest.
3. You may permanently make Emacs usage easier for newbies.
4. If Emacs rules, one has to prove it. (Habe'as Corpus)
Now, I would like this lecture to also have a Q&A session and not just a
demonstration. Yes, we all know that Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C exits and Ctrl+X,
Ctrl+S saves a document, and we all know Emacs has a web-brower, IRC
client, mail reader, gdb front-end and everything else that may might as
been written as a standalone program. But, I want to know how to use it to
edit source code, and like I said, how to do that without losing my mind
in the process.
I have a more serious reason for wanting to use it. The EE Linux farms do
not have gvim or NEdit, or FTE or joe anything else that is usable on
them. Only XEmacs. So, if I'll know how to survive in XEmacs my situation
would be much better. For the time, I'll download FTE and compile it. It
can be annoying at times, but CoolEdit is much worse...
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes
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