Ah, there are several typographical errors in my last.  The most
glaring is the error of my typing

   "Cntrl" let

when I meant

   "Cntrl" key

oo--JS.



On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Jay Sulzberger wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
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>> Hi, thanks for Your email.
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> De nada and you are very welcome!
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>> I am not sitting the whole day in front of a computer, I am working in a 
>> technical job to help people.
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>> So I didn´t have time to learn any computer language, emacs etc. because I 
>> didn´t need it for my life yet.
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>> Which editor You would propose , I should use, to show which brackets 
>> belong to each other, as you described in your email?
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> These days, well for some decades, I use Emacs.  I think Emacs can be
> learned bit by bit.  Usually I run Emacs in an X "terminal emulator".
> (Today at home, konsole is the X terminal emulator I use.)  So usually I
> have the terminal with the bash shell running in it.  The below command
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>  guacamole:~$ cd EXAMPLES
>  guacamole:~/EXAMPLES$ echo "abc ABC (* 6 7)" >> example
>  guacamole:~/EXAMPLES$ ls -l
>  total 4
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 guaca guaca 16 Feb 22 13:43 example
>  guacamole:~/EXAMPLES$ cat example
>  abc ABC (* 6 7)
>  guacamole:~/EXAMPLES$
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> Now, hold down the "Cntrl" key and hit, still holding down the "Cntrl" key, 
> hit the "e' key.  You should now have the cursor at the end of the line
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>  Oi, I am in Emacs!  The Elisp has me!
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>  abc ABC (* 6 7)Oi, I am in Emacs!  The Elisp has me!
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> Here is the most second most important command of Emacs:
> Hold down the "Cntrl" let, and still holding down the "Cntrl" key,
> hit the "x" key, then, again, hold down the "Cntrl" let, and still
> holding down the "Cntrl" key, hit the "c" key.  Emacs will now say to
> you something like:
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>  Save file /gibber/EXAMPLES/example? (y, n, !, ., q, C-r, C-f, d or C-h)
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> Hit the "y" key and Emacs will, gently and courteously, let you go.
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>  guacamole:~/EXAMPLES$ cat example
>  abc ABC (* 6 7)Oi, I am in Emacs!  The Elisp has me!
>  guacamole:~/EXAMPLES$
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> So by direct demonstration, we know that Emacs has an avatar, the
> avatar "just a text editor".
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> I now reveal a Great Secret of Emacs:
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>  Invite a friend who knows Emacs to sit with you, and with Emacs, and
>  together learn of the Mysteries.
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> A small secret of Emacs:
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>  If you start Emacs like so
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>  emacs -nw
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> usually you will be thrown into Emacs and shown a tutorial, which, on
> the screen, starts like so:
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>  File Edit Options Buffers Tools Help
>  Warning Warning!!!  Pure space overflow    !!!Warning Warning
>  (See the node Pure Storage in the Lisp manual for details.)
>  Welcome to GNU Emacs, one component of the GNU/Linux operating system.
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>  Get help           C-h  (Hold down CTRL and press h)
>  Emacs manual       C-h r        Browse manuals     C-h i
>  Emacs tutorial     C-h t        Undo changes       C-x u
>  Buy manuals        C-h RET      Exit Emacs         C-x C-c
>  Activate menubar   M-`
>  (‘C-’ means use the CTRL key.  ‘M-’ means use the Meta (or Alt) 
> key.
>  If you have no Meta key, you may instead type ESC followed by the 
> character.)
>  Useful tasks:
>  Visit New File                  Open Home Directory
>  Customize Startup               Open *scratch* buffer
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>  GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo 
> version 1.16.0)
>   of 2021-11-27, modified by Debian
>  Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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>  GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type C-h C-w for full details.
>  Emacs is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies
>  of Emacs and modify it; type C-h C-c to see the conditions.
>  Type C-h C-o for information on getting the latest version.
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>  If an Emacs session crashed recently, type M-x recover-session RET
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>  Pay no attention to any statement by Emacs about
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> Gottfried, Heaven forwarding, I will rant^Wexplain more in a bit.
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> Thanks!
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> oo--JS.
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