The first time I ran vim, on my first Linux box, trying to follow some written-on-paper instructions to configure the network interfaces, I couldn't figure out how to do anything. Couldn't edit the file. Couldn't get help. Couldn't exit. I got progressively more frustrated, and with no other source of information on what to do, I pressed the hard-reset button on the PC.
I've been an emacs user ever since. My favorite config hacks for it allow for highlighting selected text, skipping to a line number, and commenting/uncommenting selected blocks of text. Learning to use split windows and buffers was also a leveling-up moment for me. At work I'm the only one of about 40 engineers and ops guys who uses it. The ops people are fond of telling me that you can't rely on emacs being installed everywhere. I tell them that I put 'sudo apt-get install emacs' in my .bashrc and let Puppet push it out everywhere. On Sunday, November 18, 2012 3:38:46 PM UTC-8, Rohan wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I've been working on putting together a premium emacs tutorial > recently, a kind of level-up from basic to intermediate level. It's > written without a focus on any language, but with Ruby in mind, since > that's mostly what I use emacs for. > > I'm wondering how many people here use emacs as their editor? My > impression from meetups is that vim, textmate and sublime dominate, > but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong. > > If you're interested, there's some info up at http://emacsfu.com . > > Cheers, > Rohan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/V3h0rYGKPAEJ. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
