On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 15:22, Paul wrote:
> At the last meeting Andrew told me how much he loves emacs... so I have
> decided to learn it.
Fantastic. Another to the cause.
> Which should I use, GNU emacs or the other one?
The other one is XEmacs. There is not an enormous amount of difference
between the two. I've always used XEmacs because that is the standard
text editor for Cosc. The reason that XEmacs is the standard text
editor for Cosc was that it used to be prettier than GNU Emacs.
> And any emacs tips to a complete beginner would also be helpful.
Operation Sequence
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Start Selecting C-space
Copy (write to kill-ring) M-w
Cut C-w
Paste (yank from kill-ring) C-y
Cut to end of line [1] C-k
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Swap (transpose) characters C-t
Swap words M-t
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Undo C-_
Minimise (stop) Emacs C-z
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Beginning of line [2] C-a
End of line C-e
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In HTML/SGML/XML mode
Close tag C-c /
[1] You can cut multiple lines at once and they will all be concatenated
in the clipboard.
[2] This is most useful if you turn the hateful CapsLock key into
another blessed Control. To do this save the attached XModMap file
somewhere and run the command
xmodmap CapsControl.xmod
[The file was nicked off the Cosc machines!]
--
Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
!
! Make both Caps_Lock and Control_L produce Control
!
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Control_L
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
keycode 222 = F13
keycode 223 = F14
keycode 227 = F15
