[ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...

[Greg Clifton]

Wolf,  sounds like MT would be your drinking buddy for that exercise ;-)

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Matt Urbanski <ur.matt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, there's now way to avoid using those on the command prompt. Its
> funny that they work at the : prompt in vi.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 19:54:32
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org>
> > Cc: <ur.matt at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Matt Urbanski <ur.matt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Anything over 79 chars, you should prolly think about breaking down
> into a
> >>> function in most scripting languages...
> >>>
> >>> That being said, to stoke these flames, I've never seen anyone that was
> >>> truly proficient in nano or pico. Actually I rarely see people who
> don't
> >>> curse silently when EDITOR defaults to one of those abominations.
> >>
> >>
> >> silently?!
> >>
> >> It sounds more like a sudden onset of Turret's.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> >>> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
> >>> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:26:56
> >>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org>
> >>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...
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> >>
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> >> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
> they
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> >
> >
> > Now to pour a bit of gas on the fire.
> >
> > You probably don't know it, but unless you do the following
> >
> > set -o vi
> >
> > Bash by default is set to Emacs, so everyone bashing emacs, you are
> > using emac in way you did not know
> >
> > Here some emacs commands you are using I bet to move around
> >
> > Basic movement
> > C-f forward char
> > C-b backward char
> > C-p previous line
> > C-n next line
> > M-f forward one word
> > M-b backward one word
> > C-a beginning of line
> > C-e end of line
> > C-v one page up
> >
> > Just to point out that many of you have been closet emac users and
> > didn't know it.
> >
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> I was confronted by jed (emacs lite, I guess) when I installed
> git-core on one of the boxes.  I thought, why not learn to use the
> emacs system, however I was on a real-time project and none of the
> simple tutorials I could find could tell me how to use any of the very
> short list of commands jed borrows from emacs.  I wanted to save a
> "git commit."  Sometime I will buy the pitcher for somebody to show me
> how it is supposed to work.
>
> -Wolf
>
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