Re: Re: Taking the emacs plunge

Being able to properly use the mouse is really nice when it comes to doing editing work

I agree with your statement, but I'd also like to be comfortable enough that I don't have to use the mouse. I'm going on the assumption that there are people who do not use a mouse, and that a mouse is not essential to emacs use. You touch on this in your next paragraph. And I assumed that syntax highlighting & parens matching are included. I really don't like living without those features.

And I do know vi somewhat as well. There are tons of times when I need to quickly edit a config file and vi is the way to go. And one client is hosted on a RaQ whose load shoots up when I run cvs commands. I shudder to think that an emacs session would do to the poor box. ;-)

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Re: Re: Re: Taking the emacs plunge by Elian (Parson) on Apr 26, 2002 at 19:39 UTC
I agree with your statement, but I'd also like to be comfortable enough that I don't have to use the mouse. I'm going on the assumption that there are people who do not use a mouse, and that a mouse is not essential to emacs use. You touch on this in your next paragraph. And I assumed that syntax highlighting & parens matching are included. I really don't like living without those features. Oh, I don't use the mouse for most things, but it's nice to have handy when you do need it. You do need a gui interface of some sort for syntax coloring to work, unless things have really changed recently. Which they might, this being emacs and all. Paren/brace/bracket matching works regardless of how you invoke emacs, so that'll be there however you use it, os you'll be fine there. (Though using it over slow lines is a pain. OTOH, nobody does emacs over 9600 baud links these days...) There isn't anything in emacs that requires mouse usage, so don't worry about that. There are things that the mouse makes easier, certainly, but it's not required.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Taking the emacs plunge
by Elian (Parson) on Apr 26, 2002 at 19:39 UTC

I agree with your statement, but I'd also like to be comfortable enough that I don't have to use the mouse. I'm going on the assumption that there are people who do not use a mouse, and that a mouse is not essential to emacs use. You touch on this in your next paragraph. And I assumed that syntax highlighting & parens matching are included. I really don't like living without those features.

Oh, I don't use the mouse for most things, but it's nice to have handy when you do need it. You do need a gui interface of some sort for syntax coloring to work, unless things have really changed recently. Which they might, this being emacs and all.

Paren/brace/bracket matching works regardless of how you invoke emacs, so that'll be there however you use it, os you'll be fine there. (Though using it over slow lines is a pain. OTOH, nobody does emacs over 9600 baud links these days...)

There isn't anything in emacs that requires mouse usage, so don't worry about that. There are things that the mouse makes easier, certainly, but it's not required.

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