From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eduardo Ochs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how can I make a reference card like the Emacs reference card Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:20:02 -0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35457"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Gottfried Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 11 01:21:02 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p4A5T-0008ye-Ua for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:20:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4A4u-0003VO-J2; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 19:20:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4A4r-0003Ul-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 19:20:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-io1-xd2f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::d2f]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p4A4m-0008IL-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 19:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-io1-xd2f.google.com with SMTP id i83so4017950ioa.11 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:20:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=qPKyBXShuz43qiynA4ux2ROreqo1IICOLj5w37RHT3k=; b=YzuzF4TErLIPZRHvuZgcjQ4AiDJKQSkoWM5rhdzs9btf4Sd56Gk5WlznMucZWHyYjB CDSD+/LdmPCc/SPstEEtgg4HKACnThfpyCorT4aSXsIebSDcJkW5e/8GuS+EoowxIpYV vgwuMcmkLx/QYT1XrOiZ0txE9Dtl5+cnjDCq0N4P7zJ3kM7WbeUp0IuJt+QLxEWS+xTF RcANyboHsHMC8CiurXtXGjyPsiBhJlBUacgxtKwY5bZRkPOTCV6yNrXSxFMsAoANS35p r3/6KoDHQf3iob2+ueN59LYe4l6lI6raFo7EuvKlGno9DLNCXLcvoz4bPtMsPO+7F4L7 yaMA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=qPKyBXShuz43qiynA4ux2ROreqo1IICOLj5w37RHT3k=; b=l+kExqq4N3GRTt7rBeSwXfzTY95Gz9zFXJ/s1MOwxKqNd0maJWGhGWcScWiUNATCsF veHJmkeu5H0Qawfd+kbEy/1guZAfmThYPb+VdTcAYZlpt7Mi5zLYOIdiDKW/j87JAuBN kG1fjqxZt2umuIRn+ygZxhBO/Q0LrctU8M2y5dpGKqBgu66Hdlq3SymSYnQsm7PpSXNJ MfqWreTemgIBCJ9I9tMtd82cKsUDU+5zTWNVFY94nGsdfYFNkhcPaQublbW/pea6Rfe4 VIiNwFZlKugXZsheN5XZTAlbe5XXRf+Jr1rfw4cLBK4wSLlmYwUiaeVLwY38clmWaSv6 qqUw== X-Gm-Message-State: ANoB5pn7LywheJbP/KwGvwnqR5co8uDt3nbsYbZmUyjgmApSIJfWdBvb GU/PNwoHUKNwK1xdj7g5iyp5mh7elcAg2VegamY= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA0mqf6KvXaHrk2zmrnXPwaamdiy7GfRgAOBBub8XO6lKgN+Vg/lxUBulMQ6O/NN9ITIdKgPKrv7JujavYautluwOQk= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:9e09:0:b0:6e0:2859:d6a with SMTP id h9-20020a5d9e09000000b006e028590d6amr5348316ioh.51.1670718015285; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:20:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::d2f; envelope-from=eduardoochs@gmail.com; helo=mail-io1-xd2f.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141615 Archived-At: On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 at 16:55, Gottfried wrote: > > Hi, > I am learning Emacs, so please be patient with my basic questions. > > I started to read the manual on a daily basis. > > I would like to make some reference card like the Emacs reference card > for Emacs keybindings. > > I was looking on the web to find something and watched some videos, but > I didn't find anything yet. > Does somebody know some websites or videos on you tube? > It's about formatting text, after or before I start to write text. > > 1. I guess I have first to set up the right environment. > e.g. very small letters (how to do that?) > > 2. which mode should I choose? > > 3. I guess I have to create a rectangle with several columns > and enlarge it to the whole buffer / sheet > > 4. Then I have to enter text > > 5. How to do the formatting of the text? > e.g which minor mode? > e.g headings in bigger letters on the first line > > Is there a better way? > > Kind regards > > Gottfried Hi Gottfried, when I started to learn Emacs I realized that an _editable_ reference card in ASCII worked much better for me than printed reference cards or handwritten notes... If you "install" and "load" eev in the sense explained in this section, http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-install-intro.html#0 then this defun (defun r () (interactive) (find-2a nil '(find-fline "~/REFCARD"))) would make `M-x r' behave as "split the frame into a left half and a right half, and display the file "~/REFCARD" on the window at the right" - and this will work even when eev-mode is off. This will open a "reference card" in Fundamental Mode, i.e., without colors or fonts. A nice exercise is to modify that to create a second command that will open another "reference card" in Org, that will have color, fonts, italics, boldfaces, bells, and whistles... but for me the version that uses Fundamental Mode works better because in it it is trivial to write several columns of text and cram a lot of a information in a single page. Hope that helps, Eduardo Ochs http://angg.twu.net/#eev http://angg.twu.net/eepitch.html