From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginner questions
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l21s7k$6mv$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l1u4tj$e14$1@reader1.panix.com>
On 9/25/2013 3:55 AM, JohnF wrote:
> Most importantly, how to "turn off everything". For example,
> no html help, e.g., I don't want to see <u>stuff</u> or
> <h2>stuff</h2> underlined. And really annoying, I don't want
> the cursor to momentarily jump back to ( after I type (stuff).
> Ditto <stuff>, etc. Very distracting (to me). Basically,
> I just want a dumb editor
For a beginner, I suggest you give 'everything' a try before you turn
emacs into a dumb editor.
Emacs was written by real users, and does the right thing so often that
you'll wonder how you ever used any other editor.
If you're writing code (and html is code) parenthesis matching, region
commenting, coloring, indenting, inserting tags, headers, lists, check
boxes and such will save a lot of typing and debug.
Once you get into emacs, you can change the colors to your liking, as
well as assign keys for frequently used operations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 7:55 beginner questions JohnF
2013-09-25 9:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 11:18 ` JohnF
2013-09-25 12:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 8:39 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 15:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 17:11 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 18:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-29 3:45 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-28 22:32 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-29 8:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-29 7:27 ` JohnF
2013-09-29 13:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-30 8:46 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 2:22 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-09-25 17:47 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.2869.1380131281.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 7:44 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 17:52 ` Ken Goldman [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2943.1380217948.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 2:37 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 8:16 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3090.1380392333.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-29 7:58 ` JohnF
2013-10-01 17:27 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-01 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-01 20:02 ` Joost Kremers
2013-10-02 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3227.1380675393.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-02 14:34 ` Rustom Mody
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