From: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using Emacs
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:00:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A5EEB6.9020908@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c75873c0701101538u61b2a091hcf9e6d55ff871b2b@mail.gmail.com>
Graham Smith schrieb:
> I have just discovered Emacs and I now understand why people talk
> about living in Emacs. To help me get a feel for how much of my work I
> might be able to move into Emacs, I wondered if people might be
> willing to share how much of their work is done in Emacs.
>
> I am using Windows (for the time being at least), and I am not a
> programmer, but I will use Emacs as a front end for R. I am therefore
> interested in Emacs as a writing, information/time management tool
> etc. I have installed Org.mode and I am very impressed with this.
>
> As it is going to need a little bit of thought on how to structure my
> new Emacs world, I would appreciate any examples of how you use Emacs
> and hints on "best practice" with Emacs.
>
> So any comments would be gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham
As there are thousands of things worthwhile to tell
here just one:
With a setting of variable `dired-listing-switches' to
"lart", last edited files are always at sight, i.e. at
the bottom of the dired-buffer.
M-x costumize-variable...
That var may also changed on the fly every time you use
`dired,' while sending the universal argument C-u
before. In that case you will be prompted for the value.
There are other ways to come back to last edited files,
`recent-files mode`, a mode called "desktop" and
probably much more. I prefer the method above, because
its half-automatic, still let you select by hand at the
right place.
BTW: With some Emacs-Lisp knowlegde the fun starts
C-h i, m, Emacs Lisp Intro
Have a nice day
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Andreas Roehler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-11 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-10 23:38 Using Emacs Graham Smith
2007-01-11 8:00 ` Andreas Roehler [this message]
2007-01-11 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-12 9:16 ` Andreas Roehler
2007-01-12 9:33 ` Andreas Roehler
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2007-01-11 21:57 ` Tim X
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