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(Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?
Count Fenring writes "Since the Vi version of this question was both interesting and popular, let's hear from the other end of the spectrum. What are your favorite tricks, macros, extensions, and techniques for any of the various Emacs? Myself, I like 'M-x dunnet' ;-)"
I've found this very useful whenever I'm put in front of emacs C-x C-c sudo apt-get -y purge emacs vi
There, fixed that for me!
I've found this very useful whenever I'm put in front of emacs
C-x C-c
sudo apt-get -y purge emacs
vi
C-X M-C M-butterfly
Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
it was posted from emacs, took a while to press all the keys.
Hmm.. that didn't work well for me. I tried it, but I ended up in an editor with functionality that was one step above punch cards.
Hopefully this is the last story before we start with "Stupid pet tricks"
Seeing as this is about emacs tricks, everything else is a subset. Including pet tricks.
Don't get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system -- it lacks a good editor, though.
It's often the case when you need to check the sectors on your disk for corruption, or just during hard drive testing. One of the coolest things that Emacs allows you to do is check your filesystem. For example on CentOS:
yum -y install emacs*
This will proceed to fill up your hard drive with tons of software until the filesystem is full.
(I kid, I kid)
Lisp is a language that CompScis see for two months at University before leaving it behind. But if you really want to learn tricks with Emacs, you should learn Emacs Lisp - I have all sorts of specials, such as "move text to marker" and modes for handling internal IBM dump formats, that would be impossible in vi.
But if you want one quick piece of advice, here's one that should make someone smile
M-x hippie-expand RET
The ultimate, expand-this-thing-dammit-from-whatever-you-like completion trick.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
Anything I post is strictly my own thoughts and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the opinions of IBM.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
I like emacs but I'm not ready to change over to it 100% yet.
Is there a way to dual boot between Vista and emacs?
I asked my email-pal: "UNIX or Windoze?". He replied "UNIX". I said "Ah...me too!".
I asked my email-pal: "Linux or AIX?". He said "Linux, of course". I said "Me too".
I asked him: "Emacs or vi". He replied "Emacs". I said "Me too. Small world."
I asked him: "GNU Emacs or XEmacs?", and he said "GNU Emacs". I said "oh, me too."
I asked him "GNU Emacs 19 or GNU Emacs 20"? and he said "GNU Emacs 19". I said "oh, me too."
I asked him, "GNU Emacs 19.29 or GNU Emacs 19.34", and he replied "GNU Emacs 19.29". I said "DIE YOU OBSOLETE NOGOOD SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CELIBATE COMMIE FASCIST DORK!", and never emailed him again.
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(Stupid) Useful Chat-up Lines
hey, sexy mama. wanna kill all the humans?
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
Emacs has a text editor now?
It's a long time since Emacs has really been slow, but the jokes have long memories.
Performance jokes are never garbage collected -- it would take too many cycles.
Performance jokes are never garbage collected -- there's always a weak reference to them.
I'll be here all week... or until tuesday if the alternate pickup schedule is in effect due to holiday or inclement weather.
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'... is there any reason the VIM story ran first than the Emacs one?'
Emacs was still loading when it came time to run the story.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
What are your favorite tricks?
Why do you say what are my favorite tricks?
Have gnu, will travel.
So by the next week we may the OpenOffice tricks?