From: Hans BKK <hansbkk@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Generating a listing of all symbols (16K+) and labeling subsets
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:15:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <613d311e-c223-407a-b741-5f188bd6d0d3@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38d1beb3-fffd-4718-ae10-be9646ac4a63@googlegroups.com>
On Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:34:31 PM UTC-4, Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Total noob here - and non-programmer to boot, as will become
> immediately apparent from the code below - so please be gentle.
>
> Before I start getting to know emacs as an end-users - which I'm
> highly motivated to do, despite the amazingly steep learning curve to
> do the most basic things - I plan to of course highly customize my
> emacs environment to suit my needs, before starting the muscle-memory
> training required to become efficient.
There's no one right way to learn Emacs. But, I think the way you're
choosing is a lot of work.
You can start off using it for everyday editing, that's what I did and
what lots of people do. I expect you've done the tutorial and learned
the keybindings, that's very useful. Then read a bit of the manual
and the internet resources occasionally and learn more.
You only really need to looks for customizations, enable non-default
packages, etc. when you run into a problem or you feel something is
inefficient. Why change the standard behaviour if it's not a problem?
<snip>
In the interest of keeping this thread focused on the implementation-specific issues rather than the diversions likely from my answer, I've started a new thread for the "pig picture" issues here:
http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gnu.emacs.help/GLhpDW6Ksa8
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-19 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-18 5:15 Generating a listing of all symbols (16K+) and labeling subsets Hans BKK
2014-04-18 19:01 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-18 20:47 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-19 1:23 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-19 2:16 ` John Mastro
2014-04-19 2:25 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-19 2:50 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-19 4:24 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-19 20:15 ` Hans BKK [this message]
2014-04-23 4:11 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-23 7:40 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <<874n1klchv.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_32_000>
2014-04-23 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-23 13:22 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-24 2:30 ` Hans BKK
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-18 2:34 hansbkk
2014-04-18 2:09 hansbkk
2014-04-18 7:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-04-18 10:09 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <mailman.19825.1397815734.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-18 15:00 ` Hans BKK
[not found] ` <mailman.19813.1397805348.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-18 14:55 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-18 15:27 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-19 16:34 ` Robert Thorpe
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