Re:What's your favorite editor to hack with?
by greendestiny on Sunday September 16, 2007 @02:42AM
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Print yourself an emacs cheatsheet, key combinations get a little cryptic but they are the fastest way to interact with an editor (I think its probably good to use them even in other editors)
This sheet's a little basic, but its a start: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/package/emacs/emacs.html
Re:What's your favorite editor to hack with?
by jimbokun on Sunday September 16, 2007 @10:14PM
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Aquamacs is a pretty good crutch if you want to wean yourself off of standard keyboard shortcuts slowly. Basically, 'Cmd' + key does the Emacs thing most closely corresponding to the usual thing a Mac program would do. Cmd-O for Open, Cmd-X to cut, etc. This works because the main Emacs key combinations use Ctrl, of course.
Re:What's your favorite editor to hack with?
by brlewis on Monday September 17, 2007 @04:14PM
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Cure for cryptic key combinations:
Re:What's your favorite editor to hack with?
by rms on Saturday September 15, 2007 @11:50PM
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Why regular Vi and not Vim?
Re:What's your favorite editor to hack with?
by cstejerean on Saturday September 15, 2007 @11:53PM
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You are right, I actually use Vim not Vi, I don't like Vi much as it doesn't seem to like certain things, like key movements in insert mode.
Re:What's your favorite editor to hack with?
by jmcantrell on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:56PM
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there are no movement commands in insert mode (to my knowledge) in vi
The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is due to my ignorance).
I'm re-trying to learn Emacs to do some Erlang hacking but I've always been turned off the by the relatively cryptic key combinations.