At Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:36:46 -0800 (PST), John Schmitt wrote: > It was pure frustration. I didn't understand a thing. I heard, Emacs is even > harder to learn.
That's a YMMV... which is why different editors stick around. Some people love vim (while I find hopelessly confusing) and hate Emacs (which I've grown to like so much that I even use it for e-mail now). I started using Emacs for supercollider because I need to be able to resolve relative paths (against the document containing the text that's currently being executed). AFAIK that's supported only in sc.app on Mac and scel (sc+emacs). I had all the worries about how hard it is to learn, but I needed the feature so I dove in and found... I really like it! Emacs' keyword completion and quick lookup of method arguments are better than in other editors IMO. A few weeks ago on the sc-users mailing list, I posted a quick summary of the editing key bindings I use most often. If you learn these dozen or so, you'll be able to do basically all the normal text editing operations, in not much time. The learning curve is not so much that the commands don't exist -- it's that they're buried among literally thousands of commands and when you approach Emacs for the first time, sifting out the few critical commands is not easy (and the terminology is different). I hoped that a quick cheatsheet would help with that initial stage. (It did help at least one sc user, who posted within a couple of weeks that he also started to like Emacs!) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.supercollider.user/67167 James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world [email protected] http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
