Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> writes:
> I've never looked at Emacs (actually I have, but the guide I was looking
> at was rather poor). Is it easy to re-program control keys?
Yes (albeit in Lisp); my .emacs file has, for example
(global-set-key "\C-xf" 'fixup-whitespace)
to change what happens when I press Control-x, f.
> How about margins? Is there anything in Emacs like the ability to
> set (and easily change) paragraph margins?
What? Margins? Huh? Text files don't have those. :-) If you're
using Emacs to edit LaTeX files, the easiest way to change page
margins is with the 'geometry' package, but there's lots of
tweakability. I assume equivalent things exist for other text
formatting systems, but I don't really know.
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