From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help for using emacs. Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:54:47 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EF9FE07.3040606@yahoo.com> References: <1dc70d61.0306250947.72f6c89d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056571899 1721 80.91.224.249 (25 Jun 2003 20:11:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 22:11:35 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19VGcB-0000RB-00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19VGNm-00012f-MB for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:56:42 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1056570826 29092221 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114740 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11231 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11231 Charlie wrote: > 2. User open a huge text file, what is the easist way to go to the end > of the file, not just keep typing "Ctrl -v" or "M-x end-of-buffer", > that I have to type that many letters to make it happen. M-> > And also if I > want to remove a large chunk of it, I know that we can highlight that > chunk from the beginning to the end, then type "Ctrl K" to remove it. > How ? C-w (not C-k) > 3. In a file to replace a keyword, I can do either "global replace" or > "replace it one after another". Can someone tells me how to do it in > the former way ? M-x replace-string > 5. This is very common question I guess. Right now cross all the > platforms, the most popular edit tools being used are "vi" and > "emacs". I know a little about vi, which is used more common than > emacs!? So sometimes when I was trying to edit a file in my > colleague's machine, I find myself in a situation that emacs is not > available!!! vi may be installed by the OS vendor (as may emacs), but you can always install emacs yourself. If your colleague's machine is available on the network, you can edit files there from your own machine: C-x C-f /user@host:/dir/file RET (see the Remote Files section of the online Emacs manual). > I am just wondering is there any other tools that I can use, or vi is > the only option. vi is not an option. -- Kevin Rodgers