Re: [Mac-emacs-users] new to emacs!

[monk <bi...@br...>]

-- 9/20/01 1:26 PM: Mo...@Ro... said:


hi again monica,

i took the linberty of inserting your responses on the comp.lang.lisp group
because it chimed in with what people were also saying there regarding my
question, listed there as: learning lisp on a mac

hope i didn't break some netiquette, and that you don't receive any frictio=
n
for your knowledge, which i found very, very helpful!

of to mcl land then, and maybe to use mac emacs with optional libraries or
not

thanks again

>> monica,
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>> right on for the low down!!!  i really appreciate that and the history, =
then
>> i'm getting in for dirt cheap, huh!
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>> may i tap your mind for some more info. then, since you seem to be up on=
 it?
>> what if anything will i / would i use emacs for then?  i haven't figured=
 it
>> out yet . . .
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> Emacs originally came out of MIT - it was written by RMS (Richard M
> Stallman of GNU fame). I believe he was still in his mid-teens then.
> Emacs became very popular and as MIT and MIT-educated people started
> inventing LISP machines they made Emacs a standard part of the
> environment. In fact, Emacs is everywhere in every decent lisp
> implementation. MCL comes with an emacs-like editor.
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> You need for Emacs to become your regular text editor. You will use
> it for anything and everything. If you are using lisp you use Emacs
> from within Lisp. If you are doing anything else to text you use
> plain Emacs.
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> People use really incompetent editors like TeachText on Mac and
> NotePad on Windows, and even vi on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X. But Emacs is
> available for all these platforms and is preinstalled on most of
> them. People that use Emacs are 50-500% more effective than people
> that use the incompetent editors and therefore get more work done
> easier. Learning Emacs (read the manual over breakfast for two weeks)
> pays more than almost anything you can do when you are getting into
> computers. The only thing that pays more is a touch-typing class.
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> Just two examples why emacs is worth knowing: The command M-/
> (meta-slash) runs the command "dabbrev-expand" which helps you fill
> in a word you have started by typing the rest of the word for you -
> it's like mind reading and it really works and may double your typing
> speed in a programming project and cuts down on spelling errors. And
> keyboard macros -     C-X (     C-X )     C-X C-E    will let you do
> things repeatedly by using a tape recorder to record your keystrokes
> and play them back.
>=20
> One last hint: Get a keyboard where control key is where the caps
> lock is. I recommend the Happy Hacking keyboard by PFU Limited. I
> have two of these.
>=20
> - Monica


Re: learning lisp on a mac
h 'monk' elmer
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