Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:40:55 -, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jun 25, 2:32 pm, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >>> So much for the "free" in "free software". If you can't actually use >>> it without paying m

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:08:02 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> lpr /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/etc/refcard.ps >> or your install-dir^^ >> or your version.^ > > So now we're expected to go on a filesystem fishing expedition instead

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:51:34 -, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> C-h i, C-x b RET is non-trivial?!? [...] > I'm sorry. I don't speak Chinese. > > I trust I've made my point. Not only does it insist you learn a whole > other language (though I'm guessing it's not actually Chinese -- > Greek

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

2007-06-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:02:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel J. Adamson) wrote: >David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You know you can use something like >> C-x C-f /su::/etc/fstab RET >> (or /sudo::/etc/fstab) in order to edit files as root in a normal >> Emacs session? > > I did not know t

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-22 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 21 Jun 2007 16:52:17 +0200, Bjorn Borud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on my tombstone will say > "here lies the last Emacs user on earth. M-x rip". Hahaha! Very good one :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

2007-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:01:35 -0700, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of > Emacs. > > They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The > whole article can be found at > > http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.ht

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

2007-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:21 +0200, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't mind folks using any editor they want, as long as they are >> proficient. In those cases, I have no problem doing Extreme >> Programming with them -- code a bit, save,

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:33:13 GMT, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote or quoted : > >> What the hell has that got to do with HTML email? Sending photos >> is an example of what attachments are for. > > Normally you send photos to grandma with captions un