I thought StackOverflow was done with such poll-type questions? I was sorry to see the "Best Programming Comics" question go.
The single most useful Emacs feature
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Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#32It isn't an official part of Emacs, but no Emacs user should go without installing el-get, the meta-package-manager for Emacs. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get El-get can install and update elisp from git, svn, http, and EmacsWiki. (It also wraps ELPA and apt-get where packages exist.) If el-get doesn't have a recipe for your favorite Emacs extension, please consider adding the recipe and pushing to GitHub. (It does…
I use package.el Any advantage to swapping to el-get?
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#33I like idomenu, which lists variable/function definitions in your file. When you combine it with ido-menu, it's magic. Bind it to C-c s, and you get a list of symbols you can navigate extremely fast. The downside is that if the symbol locations change in a file, you'd have to refresh it. :(
Sorry, is there a typo in here somewhere? Are "idomenu" and "ido-menu" different things?
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#34Undo-tree handles all my undo'ing needs, and non-emacs users like looking at its strikingly elegant tree visualizer.
(http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree) Scroll down for screenshot.
And follow-mode on a monitor turned sideways is pretty funny. Doubles your vertical space (good for eyeballing logs and data dumps).
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#35I use `self-insert-command' an awful lot. I'd say it was the single most important feature.
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#36on a side note, whenever i asked such open ended question on stackoverflow, it would quickly get closed by some other user claiming that "there is no right answer" and the question must be closed. But there are so many great open ended questions on there that score so high among users. i guess it's a matter of luck that some anal retentive person doesn't get to it first?
It's not exactly luck. Until today this question hasn't been active since 2009, when opened-ended questions were permitted. Now that it's been bumped it'll be closed shortly.
Closed now.
I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't gone through all the older questions looking for stuff to close, given how rigid their mods tend to be.
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#37It's interesting that it's hard to explain, because the fingers will play the chord by themselves and I need to stop and think to know what I am actually typing.
C-x r k to cut a rectangle, and C-x r t to add one filled with, for example, the comment symbol:
(C-space)this
to comment
C-x r t #
#this
#to comment
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#38M-! open http://www.vim.org/
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#39- ido mode with ido-enable-flex-matching set.
- recentf-mode integrated with ido.
Too many to list.
Re: The single most useful Emacs feature
#40It isn't an official part of Emacs, but no Emacs user should go without installing el-get, the meta-package-manager for Emacs. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get El-get can install and update elisp from git, svn, http, and EmacsWiki. (It also wraps ELPA and apt-get where packages exist.) If el-get doesn't have a recipe for your favorite Emacs extension, please consider adding the recipe and pushing to GitHub. (It does…
I use package.el Any advantage to swapping to el-get?
Yes, package.el doesn't install arbitrary snippets from anywhere on the internet.