Comments on: Beginner’s Guide to Emacs http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/ a blog about mastering the world's best text editor Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sai Gollapudi http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-18472 Sai Gollapudi Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:25:34 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-18472 Cool. Thanks for the material. As a newbee to Emacs I find it useful. Keem em coming.

]]> By: pc http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-1002 pc Thu, 12 May 2011 14:24:31 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-1002 Hey,

Awesome site, just started using emacs, so really helpful.

About running emacs from a Terminal, what you meant was that we should not attempt to use it on terminals like gnome-terminal, right?

I had initially started using Emacs on gnome-terminal and it does add lots of different key-bindings. But xterm is just too hard to customize, so I am starting to use it on a tty without X, seems to run fine.

]]> By: Victor http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-428 Victor Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:34:18 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-428 About the emacs pinky, I actually did my own hack to avoid using the ctrl key. I use now the SPACEBAR key. This (https://github.com/r0adrunner/Space2Ctrl) small program for X changes the behavior of the space bar, so when it is used in a combination, it adds the control modifier to it. When used alone, it behaves normally on release. That way you don’t have to use your pinky at all! Worked perfectly for me.

]]> By: jaskirat http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-326 jaskirat Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:51:17 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-326 I think the emacs-starter-kit (https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit) has the best defaults and people starting to use emacs should definitely look to use the starter kit. The details might be overwhelming intially but overtime you check out what the starter-kit has to offer and read the bunch of el files and discover good stuff and ofcourse it comes with ELPA – M-x package-list-packages

Disclaimer: i am a newbie to emacs

]]> By: Cornellian http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-273 Cornellian Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:22:00 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-273 On a Mac you can set the modifier keys to whatever you like via System Preferences, so changing CapsLock to Ctrl is trivially easy.

]]> By: Felipe http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-52 Felipe Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:53:08 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-52 I didn’t know about ielm, thanks a lot!
Makes you wonder if you live 150 years you would learn all that emacs has to offer…Probably not.

]]> By: Donnie http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-46 Donnie Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:19:38 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-46 Another great way to eval code:

M-x ielm

which gives you an Elisp REPL!

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]]> By: brad clawsie http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-43 brad clawsie Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:45:23 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-43 interesting! although i must say i’m not sure i agree with the advice to not run emacs in a terminal. running emacs in a terminal means i can run it on the server. running it on the server means i can detach from my emacs process easily with gnu screen or tmux. yes, emacsclient can connect to a remote emacs daemon invocation, but its nowhere near as simple or powerful as using screen or tmux.

the shells issue is a tougher call. eshell provides some interesting hooks and features (particularly the ease with which you can treat shell output as buffer content), but its broken in other annoying ways…particularly when using any program that wants to manipulate the ptty in interesting ways

my advice to newbies would be this: run emacs however you want. try something new every day. don’t worry about buying into every emacs feature

]]> By: Introduction to Ido Mode | Mastering Emacs http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-4 Introduction to Ido Mode | Mastering Emacs Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:47:07 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/10/04/beginners-guide-to-emacs/#comment-4 [...] this to your .emacs file: (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t) (setq ido-everywhere t) (ido-mode [...]

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