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Is it weird that I wish somebody would make a terminal-ized version of newer editors like Atom/ST/Brackets?
How else can you screen/tmux your work? Terminals ftw.
I hadn't tried Magit before now, but on the suggestion of this blog I'm giving it a look through. Looks good so far. I also enjoy the style the blog is using: anyone know what backend the author is using?
One thing I hated about magit was that I couldn't stage multiple files with a region or similar. I'm currently on my phone for the rest of the evening so I won't have chance to check - if you notice this has arrived in your testing, do let me know! I usually use shell emulator + company for dir/file autocomplete. This is the fastest I've got to staging individuals files or dirs, especially with projects that have a d…
This feature has been available for some time, I believe. In magit-status, just select with region the files and then `s` to stage the highlighted files.
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Swap your CTRL and caps lock keys. It will make it a lot easier to use.
If emacs expects 3 modifier keys, and emacs is wildly popular with programmers, then why hasn't someone made a keyboard with the windows key renamed and remapped to the missing meta key?
If you're on OSX and want a good Emacs, go to https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port and read the installation instructions under the Homebrew section. It follows the official Emacs repo pretty closely, but has useful OSX additions (smooth scrolling, gesture support [font size e.g] and more).
That git repo claims to be retired. I get my emacs from here http://emacsformacosx.com
The repo you're referring to is Railwaycat's mirror of Yamamoto Mitsuharu's codebase. (which previously was only available via ftp and tarballs.)
Yamamoto has recently migrated to git and hosts a repo at Chiba U, the address is: http://www.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/~mituharu/emacs-mac.git
HOWEVER. Railwaycat does still maintain the Homebrew tap and formula for installing Emacs Mac Port
Here: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
A simple install via:
brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport
brew update
brew install emacs-mac
Once built, you can (without any problems) move the Emacs.app into your /Applications/ folder.
Don't do yourself a disservice, install Emacs Mac Port now.
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Swap your CTRL and caps lock keys. It will make it a lot easier to use.
If emacs expects 3 modifier keys, and emacs is wildly popular with programmers, then why hasn't someone made a keyboard with the windows key renamed and remapped to the missing meta key?
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hjkl is QWERTY-centric, and would be totally nonsensical to a user of a different keyboard layout, like Dvorak. C-f, C-b are English-centric, and would be totally nonsensical to a user of a different language. Intuitive is hard.
Hmm, maybe someone should invent keys with arrows on them! :P
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One thing I hated about magit was that I couldn't stage multiple files with a region or similar. I'm currently on my phone for the rest of the evening so I won't have chance to check - if you notice this has arrived in your testing, do let me know! I usually use shell emulator + company for dir/file autocomplete. This is the fastest I've got to staging individuals files or dirs, especially with projects that have a d…
> stage multiple files with a region or similar This feature has been available for some time, I believe. In magit-status, just select with region the files and then `s` to stage the highlighted files.
Adding git-gutter to the mix will allow staging / reverting at the hunk level.
I should probably note also that in Magit status, the user has to TAB the unstaged file to be able to do region or hunk level staging.
Ideally it would be possible to do it in the buffer in question as well.
Not even git-gutter has region style staging. Hopefully it will be implemented soon. I had a crack at it but time got away from me.
I hadn't tried Magit before now, but on the suggestion of this blog I'm giving it a look through. Looks good so far. I also enjoy the style the blog is using: anyone know what backend the author is using?
Interactive rebase/squash is tough to find... so here it is.
in Magit status, do l l (log, short-log)
Select the sha1/commit you want to begin squash/pick rebasing...
press E
off you go.
You maintain a list of packages in a Cask file and run "cask" to automatically download and install them from a repository like MELPA. Like Gemfile or requirements.txt, but for Emacs.
I found this really reduced the number of elisp snippets I've had to write or grab from around the web. Most popular packages are on MELPA, and there's usually a more polished way to accomplish things I was hacking together myself.
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ctrl-k ctrl-y ?
Not quite the same. For instance, to duplicate a line in Emacs you have to go to the beginning of the line, kill it and then yank twice, and it doesn't even work always, particularly at the end of a buffer. In vi, it's just yyp. No corner cases.
