emacs: Love at 923,342,355th Sight!

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:21:05 -0600

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Greetings Geeks!

Since I'm proselytizing, I just have to say that I think emacs rocks! If
you've steered away from it for a few years or decades in favor of vi,
maybe now's the time to switch! :)

Have a look at:

http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_chapter/emacs_toc.html#SEC_Contents
for the basics, and (my favorite):

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro_1.html

LISP is really easy to learn (and I honestly think to have any hope of
understanding emacs, it's actually better to start with the second
document and then read the emacs manual!) and lets you do amazing things
in emacs. Not only are large parts of emacs written in LISP, but you can
use it to write your own macros to do all sorts of sophisticated things.
The emacs key bindings tend to have a huge learning curve, but once
you've figured them out (a few days of steady usage at most), it's hard
to go back to vi or use any other editor. And it's a lot of fun, too.
You can use emacs to handle interactive shell sessions or read news or
mail! <laugh> And you can use it as a LISP programming environment (or
really, as a front-end to any other interpreter or compiler).

I hope this helps,

Steve

PS I saw James Duncan Davidson, the Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant author,
and he said that while he worked at Sun he got curious about the Java
IDE's and so he went around to everyone in his office (which included
James Gossling, the Java language inventor) to see what they used. To
his surprise, they all used vi or emacs! 

Noumenaut Software

Steve Jovanovic
Director of Engineering
 <http://dev.noumenaut.com> http://dev.noumenaut.com
262.632.7755

"And the walls shall have eyes, and the doors shall have ears." - Bowie

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

Since I&#8217;m proselytizing, I just have to say =
that I
think emacs rocks! If you&#8217;ve steered =
away from
it for a few years or decades in favor of vi, =
maybe
now&#8217;s the time to switch! :)<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Have a look at:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href=3D"http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_chapter/emacs_toc.html#SEC_C=
ontents">http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_chapter/emacs_toc.html#SEC_=
Contents</a>
for the basics, and (my favorite):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href=3D"http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro=
_1.html">http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intr=
o_1.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

LISP is really easy to learn (and I honestly think to =
have
any hope of understanding emacs, it&#8217;s =
actually
better to start with the second document and then read the emacs
manual!) and lets you do amazing things in emacs. Not
only are large parts of emacs written in =
LISP, but
you can use it to write your own macros to do all sorts of sophisticated
things. The emacs key bindings tend to have =
a huge
learning curve, but once you&#8217;ve figured them out (a few days of =
steady
usage at most), it&#8217;s hard to go back to vi or use any other =
editor. And
it&#8217;s a lot of fun, too. You can use emacs to
handle interactive shell sessions or read news or mail! &lt;laugh&gt;
And you can use it as a LISP programming environment (or really, as a =
front-end
to any other interpreter or compiler).<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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font-family:Arial'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

PS I saw James Duncan Davidson, the Apache Tomcat and =
Apache
Ant author, and he said that while he worked at Sun he got curious about =
the
Java IDE&#8217;s and so he went around to =
everyone in
his office (which included James Gossling, =
the Java
language inventor) to see what they used. To his surprise, they all used =
vi or emacs! =
<o:p></o:p>

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