Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:16 AM -0600 Guy Fraser
<guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Emacs can do a lot of things and do them well, but it operates very
differently that the editors you noted, and would require a steep
learning curve.
I learned it a million years ago using the built-in tutorial. Seemed
pretty straightforward. The basic commands were pretty intuitive.
Control with F, B, N, P goes Forward character, Backward character, Next
line, Previous line. More advanced commands could be learned using the
apropos feature. (What commands operate on windows? "Esc-x-apropos
window".)
Hey that's how I remembered it, made it easy when Cisco decided to to those
same key strokes for their command line editing. :-)
I learned it back before the introduction of the luxurious VT100
terminal, when keyboards were much more limited. No arrow keys, and
maybe one or two function keys. Maybe no numeric keypad. No meta/alt
keys, and only one Control key on the left. F1 was not yet the universal
help key.
I remember this really weird terminal that had all the basic keys
alpha-numeric, shift and control. No Enter, carriage return, line feed
or escape. That's where I first used emacs. Everything was control this
or control that. When the first PC keyboards came out I was driven
nuts by the fact that the shift and control were in the opposite
locations!
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