From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lee Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage? Date: 23 Nov 2004 15:49:31 +0800 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <87vfbx0zuc.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101210382 16016 80.91.229.6 (23 Nov 2004 11:46:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 23 12:46:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWZ7c-0003zO-00 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:46:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWZGi-0001Ss-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:55:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gela.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126830 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22230 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22230 >>>>> "FCC" =3D=3D FCC writes: FCC> I am wondering if I am missing anything of Emacs that could FCC> be of great use to me Yes, of course. Check what M-/ does, and be warned that it is addictive! Also, if you have ispell installed and you're typing in text-mode (or derived ones), you can M-Tab to complete the word. (And you'll start to hate Windows, which gives you NO WAY to stop it from stealing/robbing this key binding.) Have you tried w3? I don't use it, as it is really slow. But I like the way in which I can navigate the page displayed. This is quite cool when filling in forms, because all the editing capabilities of Emacs are there at your disposal. (But the UI of Mozilla and Firefox are approaching such 'friendliness' recently. E.g. starting a search with "/".) And if you edit text files (including C/C++/Java/whatever source code, LaTeX manuscripts, etc.) and you aren't using version control, consider learning to use RCS or CVS under Emacs. I myself learnt RCS first under Emacs, well before I got familiar with the RCS command line. (Emacs has made it much easier to use RCS and CVS than on the command line.) If you are developing programs, don't miss M-x compile and M-x gdb or M-x perldb. FCC> (sorry, gnus does not count for me, although I am very much FCC> aware of its popularity among Emacs users,=20 I know a vi user who likes to browse Usenet with Gnus+Emacs. I don't know why. Maybe, Gnus's features are really unparalleled. I myself am both an Emacs and vi user, switching easily between them every other minute. FCC> because probably it would be more efficient for me if I did FCC> not have to check or send e-mails and also spend less time on FCC> the internet). --=20 Lee Sau Dan =A7=F5=A6u=B4=B0 ~= {@nJX6X~} E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee