From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Optimal emacs shell for coding Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:06:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87bpzzwpyk.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <20080811113854.GD8149@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218467459 459 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2008 15:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jonathan Groll Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 11 17:11:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSZ3c-0007Ug-O4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSZ2g-0000og-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:10:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSZ2G-0000nB-A6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSZ2E-0000lE-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33114 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSZ2E-0000lA-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.61.143.214] (port=47856 helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSZ2E-0002F0-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KSYz5-0006vs-4x; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:06:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080811113854.GD8149@groll.co.za> (Jonathan Groll's message of "Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56456 Archived-At: () Jonathan Groll () Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:38:54 +0200 Any recommendations? I consider Emacs the optimal shell. Some keybindings i find especially useful: (global-set-key "\M-m" 'compile) (define-key minibuffer-local-map "\M-m" 'exit-minibuffer) Left thumb on meta, and `m', `p', `n' (as needed) and finally `m' w/ the right hand. thi