Re: [rails-oceania] Editors, emacs

[Iain Beeston]

I'm using emacs. Been meaning to switch to vim though!

Iain

On 19 November 2012 10:38, Rohan <rohan.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi guys,

I've been working on putting together a premium emacs tutorial

recently, a kind of level-up from basic to intermediate level. It's

written without a focus on any language, but with Ruby in mind, since

that's mostly what I use emacs for.

I'm wondering how many people here use emacs as their editor? My

impression from meetups is that vim, textmate and sublime dominate,

but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

If you're interested, there's some info up at http://emacsfu.com .

Cheers,

Rohan

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[Tommy Fotak]

Hi Rohan,

I use Emacs as my editor.

Tommy

[Tim McGilchrist]

Add a +1 for me.

Though I would agree Emacs using Rubyists do seem to be in the minority.

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[Mark Wotton]

we loyal, neckbearded few...

+1.

mark

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[Jonathan Clarke]

+1 - Neckbeardless though....

[Bayan Khalili]

+1

[Robert Postill]

I also have the double-joints of emacs use :)

[Duncan Bayne]

 

I'm wondering how many people here use emacs as their editor? My

impression from meetups is that vim, textmate and sublime dominate,

but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

I'm a happy Emacs user myself; here's my config:

https://github.com/duncan-bayne/emacs-setup

[Tim Uckun]

What seems like a hundred years ago I used to use the original lotus
123 all the time. I really liked their menu system which consisted of
two lines at the top of the screen. You enabled the menu with the /
key and then triggered the items using single letters for example to
copy something the command could have been /ec(motion keys or hand
entered range)(enter).

I think emacs could be made much friendlier to the hand if instead of
C-c, C-x you could make the control key "sticky" so you did Ccx. Of
course if you were going to go through all that trouble you'd use
CAPSLOCKcx instead.

Anyway that's the main reason I don't use emacs despite giving it
numerous tries. Just too painful on the hand. Probably because I never
mastered the two handed chording.

[Duncan Bayne]

Anyway that's the main reason I don't use emacs despite giving it 
numerous tries. Just too painful on the hand. Probably because I never
mastered the two handed chording.

That was my impression until I made my CAPS key CTRL.  Then things got a lot better.  Plus note that in most configurations, the Windows context menu key is bound to M-x. 

[Iain Beeston]

+1 for caps = ctrl (does cause a lot of confusion when I use other people's computers and suddenly everything's in capitals though!)

Iain

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[Duncan Bayne]

 

+1 for caps = ctrl (does cause a lot of confusion when I use other people's computers and suddenly everything's in capitals though!)

That's a security feature ;-)  On my machine the conversation goes:

 "How do I open a browser?"

 "C-t d for Chrome, C-t M-f for Firefox"

 "What???"

 "Hold down Control and T, then release them and press Alt and F, then release them."

 "It doesn't work."

 "Oh yeah, use the Caps lock key for Control."

 "Never mind ..."

But seriously once you get the hang of StumpWM the machine just flies - sooooooooo quick to boot and launch apps, and no mousing around at all.