From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: FCC Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage? Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:34:18 +0100 Organization: UPC Message-ID: References: <87vfbx0zuc.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101213361 24230 80.91.229.6 (23 Nov 2004 12:36:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 23 13:35:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWZtk-0007PX-00 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:35:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWa2q-0004Sl-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:45:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.rediris.es!montagut-news.cesca.es!news.upc.es!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: adca05.upc.es Original-X-Trace: defalla.upc.es 1101213266 10807 147.83.51.18 (23 Nov 2004 12:34:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmngr@upc.es Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Nov 2004 12:34:26 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87vfbx0zuc.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126837 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22237 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22237 Lee Sau Dan articulated on 11/23/2004 8:49 AM: > >Yes, of course. Check what M-/ does, and be warned that it is addictive! > > > Dynamically expand abbreviation. I use it only occasionally. >Also, if you have ispell installed and you're typing in text-mode (or >derived ones), you can M-Tab to complete the word. (And you'll start to hate Windows, which gives you NO WAY to stop it from stealing/robbing this key binding.) > > I did not know about this, sounds really cool. I will try it. My feelings toward Windows has never been very positive, especially suffering the ordeal of typing up a descent MS thesis under MS Word in 1995. But like many people I come from a DOS background, and I have met Unix much later in my university life, and I was never able to own one (unfortunately). Finally there is Linux, but with no descent debugger! Let us face it, MS Visual C/C++/Fortran IDE has a fabulous debugger that is graphical... Anyway, the first thing I did when I got this computer is to get it to boot both WinXP and linux-kernel-2.4.23-xfs-acpi. >And if you edit text files (including C/C++/Java/whatever source code, >LaTeX manuscripts, etc.) and you aren't using version control, >consider learning to use RCS or CVS under Emacs. I myself learnt RCS >first under Emacs, well before I got familiar with the RCS command >line. (Emacs has made it much easier to use RCS and CVS than on the >command line.) If you are developing programs, don't miss M-x compile >and M-x gdb or M-x perldb. > > > I agree that PCL-CVS is indispensible for software development, and I actively use it. Good point here, thanks. -- FCC. === If I don't enforce it, who will know good from evil? -Anonymous