[Wolves] Editors

[Simon Burke]

Sorry to say this but used to be a emacs fan myself, never really like 
Xemacs, cuz well it looks as bloated as it really is. I've recently been 
converted to Vi ,as it's a good implementation of a bad thing rather than 
emacs a bad implementation of a good thing.
>
> >Finally decided to change my editor.
> >So I've changed it. To XEmacs.
>
>Hurrah and hussah!! Another one finds the true faith.
>
>
> >This might come as a surprise to some people who have heard me express
> >Views on emacsen in the past!
>
>Nothing is more pleasurable then a sinner that repenteth ;-)
>
>
> >However, I found a thing that does nice keybindings (cua-mode.el, so I
> >get ctrl-C for copy, ctrl-x for cut, ctrl-s for save, ctrl-q for quit,
> >etc).
>
>Ahh, oh well.
>
>
> >First question: any Emacs users got any tips for things I can do to
> >make my emacs experience more pleasurable? ;)
>
>Revert to the proper keybindings and notice that they are actually the same
>as the bash keys (C-a for start of line, C-e for end of line etc) and
>everything else that uses the gnu readline library (and everywhere in OSX).
>
>Also http://anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ell.html maintains a list of
>hundreds of elisp packages that you can add in and
>http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl is the emacs wiki.
>
>eshell is hugely usefull, its a fully functional shell implemented within
>emacs thats great if you need to skip between emacs and the command line a
>lot (for a debug-recompile-test session for example). It might come as
>standard these days in which case "M-x eshell" will start it up.
>
>The most important thing I learned as an emacs newbie is that C-g is the
>cancel key for when you accidently find yourself having pressed some weird
>key combination.
>
>If you are a programmer learn a bit of elisp and start editing your .emacs
>file lisp is a language every programmer should have at least a passing
>knowledge of and writing short functions to customise your editor is a good
>way to learn.
>
>
> >Second question: any way I can speed the smegger up a bit on startup?
> >It takes ages while it loads up a load of libraries and whatnot...
>
>Make sure all of your elisp files are bytecode-compiled (.elc extension
>rather then .el) and check your .emacs file to make sure you aren't doing
>lots of "load" or "require" ing of modules you dont need.
>
>Apart from that just dont be closing it down and restarting it a lot,
>instead either use eshell or suspend emacs when you need the shell and fg 
>it
>again when you need it. Vi is an editor you can start and kill for quick
>config file editing jobs, emacs is an editor you start up once then live in
>for hours. (I'm a huge emacs fan, but if its a short job I normally use vi
>because of its quick start up times)
>
> >Aq.
>
>
>--
>;; It appears that /dev/null is a conforming XSL processor.
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