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Emacs 26.2 Released

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Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Nice feature for emacs home screen or scratch buffer to display a tip of the day ..

https://github.com/egh/emacs-totd or https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TipOfTheDay Could be modified to show, e.g. dired commands as well.

lol! Not at all surprised, if you can think of it, there is most probably an emacs plugin for it.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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post #8

I have been using GNU Emacs since the late 1980s. It has been my life's editor, so to speak. At 59 1/2, it seems unlikely that I will ever switch to another editor. It's served me well. I am grateful to the hackers that created it.

I wonder what kind of programs get to follow you for so many decades.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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What’s a good resource for learning emacs for someone who’s been using vim for more than 20 years?

I'm not sure about resources, but there's a mode called evil mode that has vim bindings. That would be a good thing to google.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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What’s a good resource for learning emacs for someone who’s been using vim for more than 20 years?

My guess is that someone that has used vim for more than 20 years will never feel truly comfortable with emacs. I say this having started with emacs for a few years, and since switched to vim, now for almost 20 years.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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> - In Dired, the 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files. Dired is so handy, but it does so much. Unless I were to use this feature often enough I fear I would never remember it was there and just break out to a terminal and `tar -zcf` manually. I feel like something already exists for this, but it would be cool if there was a "Random Mode Tip of The Day" that one could invoke for discovery and p…

I was about to write: "I agree, I think this is silly: one should just use a terminal for stuff like that".

However, Windows.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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What’s a good resource for learning emacs for someone who’s been using vim for more than 20 years?

Best bet is to just start from the beginning. My journey began with the emacs tour you get directed to the first time you start it up. With regards to muscle memory etc its a completely different animal to everything bar maybe the command line ...
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