[Techtalk] a paucity of available note takers

[Pat]

Hello Anne,
I was forced to learn a bit of vim to run the genealogy app, LifeLines. 
Vi/Vim was its default editor.  It is handy to know that one. 

Well, I checked and found that emacs also has vi/vim editor emulation,
so at least you would have immediate control at the keyboard when you
get there.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emulation.html

Also, emacs has one version (same emacs, different setting), for the
xterm or console.
But there are many improvements to the X version of emacs, and even
xemacs which is evermore gui enhanced. 

Escaping from emacs:  C-x C-c
That means control-x, control-c in sequence.

And from editing documents, C-x C-k
which will kill the current doc being edited if it has been saved, else
it asks to save first.

Exit any read-only buffer with just a plain q.

Quit any keyboard command you get stuck in with C-g

Hoping it is fun for you,

Pat


On 11/02/10 12:21, Anne Wainwright wrote:
> Hello, pat,
>
> I have in the past had a few essays into the complexities of emacsen. I
> have never had a long enough free space to get going and then decide
> 'from today only emacs' like I did when learning to type with all
> fingers. I am currently coping with vim & gvim which is a step up from
> gedit I feel (although i do most of my perl scripts in that). When I
> have gotten comfy with that i'll look at emacs, good page you sent.
>
> Thanks for the tip, i'll make it some day. i have a friend who does his
> email in emacs, but I'd be happy to be able to remember how to get out
> of it!
>
> currently sorting out dyndns and ddclient, always something to play
> with.
>
> bestest
> anne
>
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:06:36 -0700
> pat <patday at sunbirdsystems.net> wrote:
>
>>   On 9/19/2010 6:18 AM, Anne Wainwright wrote:
>> Hi Anne,
>>
>> Over the years of linux play, I have finally gravitated to basically
>> one of two editor type programs. I do small quick things to small
>> files, or start a new file using nano.
>>
>> But for comprehensive use, emacs has become my trusted friend in 3
>> different operating systems.  It behaves pretty much the same in any
>> of those systems.
>>
>> emacs is quite huge but can strip it  down as needed.  There are many
>> external libraries to do things, and different modes of text
>> handling, including note taking and outlining.
>>
>> The customizing system is amazing in that there is hardly a thing
>> that can't be modified to suit your need.
>>
>> There is a learning curve, and I am still learning.  For instance, I
>> can set a bookmark with ctl-x r m.  It will take the current
>> directory as default, will title the location as you wish.  Then
>> recall it with ctl-x r b and pick from your list.
>>
>> You can start emacs from the command line with a number of
>> parameters, and you can make them always part of the launch by adding
>> them to ~/.emacs
>>
>> I found this example page that shows just a few things emacs can do:
>> http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_fun.html
>>
>> Hope this is helpful, Pat
>>
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