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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of GNU Emacs
« Last post by ewemoa on September 19, 2013, 05:50 PM »Below is a stream-of-unconsciouness enumeration of some GNU Emacs thoughts...
Been a fairly happy user of anything.el / helm - though about all I use it for is selecting files to open. That and dabbrev-expand (M-/) are what I obviously miss the most when not using GNU Emacs.
My unsophisticated git needs are mostly covered by magit.
Am appreciating the mentioned package management system (ELPA) though I've only been aware of the installing and uninstalling portions.
I continue to use and appreciate M-x shell -- M-/ gets some good use here.
Often find myself using keyboard macros to make repetitive changes to buffer content -- they also come in handy for renaming files and directories using dired.
I didn't understand the allure of Org mode until recently, but now I have an inkling of some of its potential.
I often find myself creating new frames and splitting windows when trying to follow a code path. Being able to view more than one location of a file simultaneously has really been nice -- I see this feature only occasionally elsewhere and wish for it when I fail to find it.
Darker background colors seem to hurt my eyes less so I try to use appropriate themes -- there appears to be a bundle system now, and I tried my hand at modiyfing an existing theme by following this.
Regarding configuration, I'm not a fan of customize, but I appreciate that it can help in the discovery process. I try to keep my settings simple and tend to start over when I set up new machines instead of carrying around something that grows over the years. I find it quite nice to be able to express certain configurations using Emacs Lisp but I can appreciate not wanting to.
I don't currently and have repeatedly not succeeded in living inside of GNU Emacs -- I also use Vim.
Aside from the official documentation, I have found the following handy at times:
Been a fairly happy user of anything.el / helm - though about all I use it for is selecting files to open. That and dabbrev-expand (M-/) are what I obviously miss the most when not using GNU Emacs.
My unsophisticated git needs are mostly covered by magit.
Am appreciating the mentioned package management system (ELPA) though I've only been aware of the installing and uninstalling portions.
I continue to use and appreciate M-x shell -- M-/ gets some good use here.
Often find myself using keyboard macros to make repetitive changes to buffer content -- they also come in handy for renaming files and directories using dired.
I didn't understand the allure of Org mode until recently, but now I have an inkling of some of its potential.
I often find myself creating new frames and splitting windows when trying to follow a code path. Being able to view more than one location of a file simultaneously has really been nice -- I see this feature only occasionally elsewhere and wish for it when I fail to find it.
Darker background colors seem to hurt my eyes less so I try to use appropriate themes -- there appears to be a bundle system now, and I tried my hand at modiyfing an existing theme by following this.
Regarding configuration, I'm not a fan of customize, but I appreciate that it can help in the discovery process. I try to keep my settings simple and tend to start over when I set up new machines instead of carrying around something that grows over the years. I find it quite nice to be able to express certain configurations using Emacs Lisp but I can appreciate not wanting to.
I don't currently and have repeatedly not succeeded in living inside of GNU Emacs -- I also use Vim.
Aside from the official documentation, I have found the following handy at times:
