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Filled it in and then managed to get the default keybinding question at the end wrong. Hope that doesn't discount my entry. It's muscle memory, damnit!
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I'm curious what made it so fiddly. I set up emacs server on Windows maybe 6-8 years ago so perhaps I've forgotten a lot. But as I recall I just made a shortcut that would send the right command line arguments to emacs on launch, and a second one that I used for the client.
This is gonna sound dumb (because it is :) ) but it took me a while to realize that on Windows there's no daemon process so you gotta keep the emacs window open. I kept closing emacs and expecting the next startup to be super quick and it wasn't. It was clearly starting up from scratch again. I think the server stuff on Linux / MacOS does start a daemon, but I spent a bunch of time trying to get it to work (quick sta…
I actually do recall the lock file not being deleted properly a couple times. It didn't happen often, probably why I had mostly forgotten about it.
Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?
Well there was a lot of talk about this on the mailing list with a lot of core devs opposed to the idea.
So I guess I have been using Emacs for at least 36 years. Did they mean to say GNU Emacs?
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i've been using space p f in doom. space f d is find directory not file. space f f is find file no clue what the default is.
Probably M-x f or something. I started using Doom after maybe a week of trying vanilla Emacs, so I can't remember.
They didn't ask the heretic question of "other editors used" (in parallel, not "before"), but I'm going to tell you the answer anyhow: I use XEmacs 21.4 and Sublime 3.2.2 (and sometimes editors that come with various IDEs). I also regularly use vi when logged in as 'root', as it's an established sysadmin best practice not to run third-party software as super user. Sublime is more beautiful but I trust Emacs more (Sub…
The reason why is because using anything else creates unnecessary friction between me and the rest of the team. This applies to other tools as well; for example, the default way to bench-test a running web service is to "use Postman". I could use curl, and that would be easier for me, especially from a scripting standpoint, but everybody else's vocabulary is in terms of Postman, so I'm forcing myself to use that.
Filled it in and then managed to get the default keybinding question at the end wrong. Hope that doesn't discount my entry. It's muscle memory, damnit!
So I guess I have been using Emacs for at least 36 years. Did they mean to say GNU Emacs?