From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beginner questions Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380217961 7636 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2013 17:52:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:52:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 26 19:52:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFk1-0001nh-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFk1-0002DY-Em for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFjf-0001zH-Nt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFjY-0000mm-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFjY-0000mW-0X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFjV-0001EK-7L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-106.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by 75-17-109-106.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:52:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-106.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:93628 Archived-At: 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 stuff or >

stuff

underlined. And really annoying, I don't want > the cursor to momentarily jump back to ( after I type (stuff). > Ditto , 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.