Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:18:42 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, james.wilde@telia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991125141842.49736@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <19991124162753.A21217@penguin.ipunet.com>; from Andrew G. Luyt on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 04:27:53PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> <19991124103253.B2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <19991124135521.44585@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991124162753.A21217@penguin.ipunet.com>
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On Wednesday, 24 November 1999 at 16:27:53 -0500, Andrew G. Luyt wrote: > Thus spake Greg Lehey (grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com): > >> OK, I've said my piece here, and I disagree entirely. But it's not up >> to me; I've been using Emacs and similar editors for 20 years. The >> real question is: what do newbies think? Anybody want to comment? > > Well, speaking as a FreeBSD newbie, and partial Linux convert, > I guess I can comment. Up until recently I have used vi (vim > to be precise) for all my editing tasks. I started learning emacs > a couple of weeks ago, and it has now become my main editor for > coding purposes. The first thing I did however, was to remap > my capslock key to act as ctrl. ;) Yes, you definitely ned to do that. > I've found out that overall, my productivity has gone up with emacs, > though there are special circumstances where I say to myself 'grrr, > I wish I were using vi'. I have yet to figure out how to repeat my > last command in emacs, a la '.' in vi, for instance. m-p (that's the Meta key, usually mapped to Alt). This will give you the previous non-trivial command in the minibuffer. Repeated m-p will go further back in the command history, m-n will go forward. You can edit the command before reissuing it. > I still use vi for quickie jobs like editing config files, as I find > it's more convenient to just type vi in the xterm I'm already in, as > opposed to switching desktops to the copy of emacs I keep running at > all times. You really need to be running X. Otherwise I tend to agree. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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