From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: efficient replacing – really faster compared to using the mouse?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:46:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8ks7cFkbkU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6706.1344612116.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
When editing with the keyboard, you move around with incremental search.
Emacs
allows to select and edit rectangles with the keyboard as well. Read
the GNU
Emacs Manual for how to accomplish both tasks.
In your case, one may have chosen as well to use a replacing command.
If you are curious about the fastest way to edit code in general, then
have a
look at Vim (remapping the Esc key will be the only glitch). Emacs is more
flexible, but it's more of an editor for either text documents or
programming
languages for which it has dedicated packages. Albeit it can be tweaked
to be as
efficient as you want in any context, but then such a task is beyond the
novice
user.
Neither editor caters to the casual user. If you wish to use them
efficiently,
you'll have to commit yourself to read the manuals thoroughly and think
about
how commands may be composed, and how you can apply such commands in your
everyday editing. Otherwise, fellows who use "more user-friendly"
editors will
eat in your plate and laugh in your face.
Happy editing, mate ;-)
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[not found] <mailman.6706.1344612116.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-10 15:40 ` efficient replacing – really faster compared to using the mouse? Carson Chittom
2012-08-10 16:46 ` Raffaele Ricciardi [this message]
2012-08-10 16:47 ` Ralf Fassel
2012-08-10 18:44 ` B. T. Raven
2012-08-11 3:50 ` rusi
2012-08-11 11:55 ` Ferdinand
2012-08-11 13:13 ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-08-12 2:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-08-10 15:21 Ferdinand
2012-08-10 16:00 ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-08-10 16:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-08-10 18:14 ` Aurélien Aptel
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