Newbie question

Newbie question

[Goli, Rajesh (Rajesh)]

Hello,

I have been a vim user for sometime now and wanted to check out emacs. The
basic tutorial is good. It gave me a overview. My editing is mostly about
editing C/C++ code. Now can you help me out with the following:

* How to jump to matching brace, ifdefs etc?
* How can I get help on the things I do, like ":help case" in vim would tell
me how to manipulate cases of text?
* How can I pull down menus in xemacs without using keyboard?
* How can I set up ctags?
* How to learn advanced editing features incrementally?

Thanks in advance,
Rajesh

Re: Newbie question

[Denis Bueno]

On 06 Sep 2005, at 02.30, Goli, Rajesh (Rajesh) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been a vim user for sometime now and wanted to check out  
> emacs. The
> basic tutorial is good. It gave me a overview. My editing is mostly  
> about
> editing C/C++ code. Now can you help me out with the following:
>
> * How to jump to matching brace, ifdefs etc?

If you're on an open-brace, C-M-f will go to one character past the  
closing brace; C-M-b will go back. (Not sure about #ifdef's, although  
C-c C-p and C-c C-n might be what you want.

> * How can I get help on the things I do, like ":help case" in vim  
> would tell
> me how to manipulate cases of text?

Not sure about the help, but:

     M-c will capitalize the word starting at the point (cursor).
     M-l will lowercase the word ....
     M-u will uppercase the word ....

-Denis

Re: Newbie question

[Kevin Rodgers]

Goli, Rajesh (Rajesh) wrote:
 > * How can I get help on the things I do, like ":help case" in vim 
would tell
 > me how to manipulate cases of text?

`C-h a case RET' will list all the commands with "case" in their name.

`C-h i i case', then `,' will take you through the manual pages that are
indexed under "case".

 > * How can I pull down menus in xemacs without using keyboard?

Uh, use the mouse?

Or do you mean "How can I pull down menus in emacs by using the keyboard
instead of the mouse"?  I don't know about XEmacs, but the "Menu Bar"
section of the Emacs manual says:

|    On text-only terminals with no mouse, you can use the menu bar by
| typing `M-`' or <F10> (these run the command `tmm-menubar').  This
| command enters a mode in which you can select a menu item from the
| keyboard.  A provisional choice appears in the echo area.  You can use
| the left and right arrow keys to move through the menu to different
| choices.  When you have found the choice you want, type <RET> to select
| it.
|
|    Each menu item also has an assigned letter or digit which designates
| that item; it is usually the initial of some word in the item's name.
| This letter or digit is separated from the item name by `=>'.  You can
| type the item's letter or digit to select the item.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers