Comments on: A first run-in with emacs

By: Cristhyano

Cristhyano — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:15:44 +0000

Man, let me know if you find a text editor for console that don’t fuck up lines when writing plain text. Nano is horrible in that.

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:25:50 +0000

I thought emacs was kinda dead? Like the browser wars and the desktop wars and the rest, I thought the editor wars was settled
with Vim the winner long ago. Maybe not!?

I like the comparison – in the browser, desktop and editor wars the (unwashed) masses settled on IE, Windows and Vim respectively, but experienced people use Firefox, OSX / Linux and Emacs.

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:25:31 +0000

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By: wizzard

wizzard — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:46:16 +0000

GNU Emacs comes with a printable two-page reference card that covers the most often used keyboard shortcuts. The name of this reference card file is refcard.ps.

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:17:26 +0000

I thought emacs was kinda dead? Like the browser wars and the desktop wars and the rest, I thought the editor wars was settled with Vim the winner long ago. Maybe not!?

I am a Vim fan, but there is a ton for me to still learn. I just know that I can find Vim on pretty much any machine or live cd, whereas I’ve never even seen emacs on the screen nor had anyone suggest it to me.

I heard once on the Linux Link Tech Show audiocast (I think it was that one), they were talking about all of the emacs ‘features’ and what it has built into it: “I tried Emacs once, but it wouldn’t let me install Linux.”

By: Dr Small

Dr Small — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:02:03 +0000

Kmandla, don’t let past experiences stop you from moving on to something more powerful and better Vim is definitely the ultimate editor for it’s commands, keybinds and features.

Once you learn Vim (and it may only take you a day to get the feel for it) you will never want to turn back because you then know that you hold the ultimate editor in your hands!

For starting, vimtutor is an excellent guide (although I never heard of it when I started, and did reading from the internet).

By: damaged justice

damaged justice — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:54:57 +0000

I should also point out when I learned the hkjl movement keys, rather than cursing the idiocy of the alien who came up with this, merely said: “Oh, *that’s* where Nethack got that from…”

By: damaged justice

damaged justice — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:50:41 +0000

I forced myself to get comfortable with vi when I first started using Unix, and while the early stages may have been painful, I’ve never had cause to regret it. To this day I manage to edit text with it quickly and efficiently, even while using probably less than 5% of its features.

Admittedly, I may have been prejudiced by reading Steven Levy’s HACKERS in high school and seeing EMACS described as “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”. Still, a single page cheat sheet has been enough to keep me productive with vi for nearly twenty years.

By: Timmy Macdonald

Timmy Macdonald — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:57:44 +0000

I don’t want to start a flame war, but all I’m saying is that Vi/Vim is a lot lighter than EMacs…