The biggest snag with vi is realizing if you are in 'edit' or 'command'
mode. By default you are in command mode until you hit an I for Insert.
Then it works like any other editor. I've ruined many documents when I
thought I was typing in text only to realize I'd just executed a couple
dozen commands. Nice thing is I could always hit escape to go back into
command mode and then :q! (colon Q bang) to quit without saving. Once
you do :wq (colon write quit) your changes are committed.
CB
On 1/12/14 9:02 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse wrote:
the last time i needed VI was when i installed boom on the mac mini
and had too manually delete all of its files, i found out at that time
that vi was not too be had from my recovery disk, so rm too the rescue
;d
That, is a another story intirely though:)
Sandi
On 1/11/14, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
Oh, my, I had a horrible time with VI, because I didn’t RTFM, of course, and
I couldn’t get out of it. More and more control characters kept appearing
from my attempts to press escape and control-q, and then when I found that
exiting was an obscure command like ZZ or something really disjointed, I
complained to a programmer friend of mine. He said it was all completely
logical. Now I know how some people feel when they learn Braille! :) anyway,
Emacs is only slightly less intuitive to my way of thinking, but I took the
time to RTFM before I used it. :)
Ok, I’ll bite, RTFM is Read the Frigging Manual. :)
Teresa
Slow down; you'll get there faster.
On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <[email protected]>
wrote:
hi Teresa, no problem, usually when i need that kinda editor, i would
use a proper one, "vi" but that is just me , hides under a very solid
table, that is all religion though.
Best
Sandi
On 1/11/14, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
Going to the terminal and typing "emacs" should be sufficient.
Sent from my braille plus 18
Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
hi, Sandi,
There might be some confusion here. Emacs is a desktop that you start
from
Terminal. Do you have this? i haven’t found it natively or on Macports
or
Homebrew, which you have to install. Can you tell me the steps you use
to
run it?
Thanks,
Teresa
"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard
P.
Feynman
On Jan 11, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <[email protected]>
wrote:
am not sure how one would install emacsspeak, but emacs seems too be
installed on my version of ml,
On 1/11/14, Teresa Cochran <[email protected]> wrote:
I may google this today. I so don’t want to install from source, as I
don’t
have enough knowledge of command line to do this yet. I also don’t
want
to
use VO with emacs, because VO is a bit unpredictable when you get
outside of
the shell.
Teresa
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog,
it's
too
dark to read."--Groucho Marx
On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, I've also wanted to use emacs with emacspeak for a while now.
Sent from my braille plus 18
Kjsc Radio <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all, just a simple question, do you know how I could compile
emacs
to
work in the terminal? And how would i get it working? Thanks all.
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