in reply to Re: Getting into Emacs?
in thread Getting into Emacs?

"This been said, try this EMACS page it seems to know what it's doing." Ah, yes "Xah's Emacs Tutorial"

Xah certainly knows his way around emacs, but he's a bit of a windows weenie... he gets a bit snarky that a lot of us have trouble caring about things like this:

"Turn on CUA Mode" ... "The CUA mode will make emacs behave more like modern applications"

Of course, if you're also coming from a windows background, it could be his advice is just what you need.

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Re^3: Getting into Emacs?
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Apr 11, 2008 at 21:12 UTC
    OTOH, Xah is a well-known USENET troll and should be avoided at all costs, IMHO.

    I haven't read what he's got to say about Emacs. It may be very good, I just assume it's as worthless as all his posts to comp.lang.perl.misc and elsewhere.

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      OTOH, Xah is a well-known USENET troll and should be avoided at all costs, IMHO.

      Well... I was trying to be nice about it, but yeah, he has a habit of starting inflammatory threads on comp.emacs about how emacs needs to be "modernized" (i.e. work by default exactly the way he thinks it should).

      But you know, just because you don't like his manners doesn't mean he doesn't know something about what he's talking about (myself, I'm not about to throw away every book I own that says "Christiansen" on the spine).

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        If you read my node again, you'll see I did say that his emacs tutorial may be good, but I hadn't read it.

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