Re: Full-screen editor in /bin
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:51:19PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > :) OK, I've fired up emacs on a couple of occasions and found it
> > completely unintuitive and so returned to nano (before that pico) for
> > simple text editing (and coding).
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> Yes, but you can tell emacs to explain itself. Start emacs, hit
> Ctrl-h then hit t and it'll give you a nice newbie tutorial.
I promise not to give a running commentary on my experience with emacs,
but I just entered 'emacs' in a terminal (naively expecting it to open in
my terminal, because I thought _xemacs_ was a whole different
application) and it opened a window _taller_ than my 800x600 display. Not
a good start! Can I run it _in_ a terminal, the way I run nano? And it
_still_ strikes me as unintuitive - I just want to _edit_ for gods' sake
and it opens with all this information about buffers and stuff in
_exactly_ the place where I expect to be entering my text. So, I start
entering text, and it tells me "This buffer is for notes you don't want to
save, and for Lisp evaluation." Huh? This is _not_ intuitive. (And when
I do what it tells me - C-x C-f - it leaves me in that buffer.)
All I want to do is open a file or a blank page and enter text. emacs
seems to resist my doing that.
Not that I'm telling, but I suspect there's some implied linkage between
this thread and the one about Debian Senior :)
Patrick
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Patrick Wiseman
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