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Re:Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019) by neonnoodle on Saturday August 14, 2021 @08:59AM (#28180267)
The only thing you have to configure is your entire brain. Seriously, for anyone under 40, pressing Ctrl-Z should undo, not hide the window. I say this as a fanatical emacs user. There is nothing straightforward about vanilla emacs for someone whose software expectations have been shaped by the conventions of the last three decades!
Re:Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019) by ryukafalz on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:15AM (#28180355)
I can't speak to its completeness as I haven't used it personally, but Emacs does ship with cua-mode which enables a lot of those keybindings. It's just not enabled by default, as most existing users wouldn't use it.
Re:Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019) by one_comment on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:16PM (#28184389)
Am under 40. Regularity get annoyed by new windows opening when I just wanted to go down one line (and yes, I have found the gnome emacs input mode setting).
Re:Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019) by medo-bear on Saturday August 14, 2021 @04:08PM (#28183587)
i hated emacs at first for this reason. ctrl-v should be paste, ctrl-c should be copy, right !? now though i have emacs bindings system wide

what brought me to emacs first was intrigue - why do people keep saying that this little shitty-looking weird editor is the most powerful program on my computer :) they weren't wrong