From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs -- simple Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:49:11 +0530 Message-ID: <814nylvl4g.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320297582 1767 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2011 05:19:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 05:19:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Jai Dayal Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 06:19:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLpiE-00060K-5D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:19:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47727 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLpiD-00007R-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLpi8-00007L-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLpi7-0003QP-Nn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:19:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:58972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLpi7-0003QJ-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: by ywa17 with SMTP id 17so1077845ywa.0 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:19:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=mwHaUnuUkGaNIW1HABLBQWPQ1XffYLI8nFeEqrkUQI8=; b=QlCmgOzmbH0XnxVlOC1aBHHoUtduxswhJQvtb2ZZBSa2M126aLkSLmk0reg+VP6w+k +vWHRt+fNOzuGKi4yClWUvXh0xveXPGaX9wLsl2Ry/BJEsYOXWIWX9/XwKUtG8xZXBOZ 8AekpN/rZ+K0DUCW1RrqusjoxIglgVn5cM2BA= Original-Received: by 10.68.32.234 with SMTP id m10mr9441183pbi.43.1320297570161; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.241.3.23]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p10sm10104631pbd.15.2011.11.02.22.19.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:19:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Jai Dayal's message of "Wed, 2 Nov 2011 18:56:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.213.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82740 Archived-At: > I just want to open up emacs quickly to edit some textfile very > quickly, and then close it and proceed. There is an editor named `jmacs' (I think it stands for `joe emacs'). Good for quick editing of git commit messages or for dong interactive rebases. I used to use `vi' for these operations long back. Since discovering jmacs, I have abandoned vi for my own good. --