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Re: Bad Emacs Advice

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post #79

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C-h i m 'Emacs Lisp Intro'

That doesn't work for me.

Something must have clearly gone wrong with the install (or perhaps there is a minimal install version...?) If this were Gentoo, I would suggest that perhaps the "doc" USE flag was not enabled?

Re: Bad Emacs Advice

#104
post #79

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C-h i m 'Emacs Lisp Intro'

That doesn't work for me.

Same. I have a vanilla Emacs install and the Lisp Intro doesn't seem to be there.

You can find it online though:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsLispIntro

Edit: I'm on an Ubuntu derived distro, so this may be the issue:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48211/emacs-manual...

Edit2:

Yeah, at least for me that was the problem. This fixed it:

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-common-non-dfsg

Re: Bad Emacs Advice

#105

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Don't use the quotes for the phrase, just type it verbatim. If that still doesn't work then either the info page isn't installed (weird) or something else is up. You can also, from the first info page at C-h i, type "C-s emacs lisp intro" which should bring you to it. And again, if it's not there then something is wonky with your install.

I have a totally standard Emacs install, but it's not there. C-h i and searching with C-s for "lisp" finds nothing either.

So the only thing I can find is that for emacs before emacs 21 it was not included (I didn't know that, I guess I installed it through my package manager or some other means back then and forgot). After that, it is included by default. But you can check to see if your package manager includes a separate `emacs-lisp-intro` or similar package. Short that, you'll have to download it from the site and install it manually to see it in emacs or just use the HTML version.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html

Re: Bad Emacs Advice

#106

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There are lots of things which are non traditional but good on pizza. Fish and chips for one. Curry wurst. Apple, persimmon, pine nut and blue cheese. Halloumi, pea, and mint. Mushroom, goat cheese and chipotle. Cranberry and white pudding. (Or cranberry and goat cheese) Christmas dinner. (Turkey, stuffing, ham, cranberry). Pulled pork. Roast pineapple and mint. Bacon and egg. Berry and cream cheese. Salmon and cream…

Hard agree. My first job was a pizza place where we had "Pizza of the Month" deals which were unusual pizza's. Street taco pizza? Amazing. Thanksgiving pizza? Amazing. Spicy honey + fresh mozzarella? Amazing. Baked potato pizza? Amazing. Just gotta remember to not use tomato sauce for some of those.

If you find yourself near Slade, KY, you might find Miguel's worth a visit[0]. Their list of toppings and sauces is extensive, in part reflecting that it's anything in the kitchen that might reasonably be a pizza topping, salad component, or breakfast burrito filling. Hell, they'll put rotini on your pizza if you want, since they have it on hand for people who prefer pasta to pizza as their dinner substrate.

I suspect you could experiment to your hearts content for a long while there.

[0] It's unlikely that you'll "find" yourself in Slade without already knowing about Miguel's.

Re: Bad Emacs Advice

#107

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That doesn't work for me.

Something must have clearly gone wrong with the install (or perhaps there is a minimal install version...?) If this were Gentoo, I would suggest that perhaps the "doc" USE flag was not enabled?

Looks like Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives don't install the Emacs manuals by default. I had to do this to get it on my PopOS box:

sudo apt-get -y install emacs-common-non-dfsg

Re: Bad Emacs Advice

#108
post #82

I have been turning off the menu bar for quite some time because I get distracted easily and any content that's not necessary just gets in the way. That said, you can always call it up as a pop-up menu.

The menu bar is pretty good for discovery, you'll have to rely more on naming convention and documentation without it.

The toolbar is pretty fungible though, few modes do anything with it and the core functionality you get from the standard chords you find in the tutorial, little bang for the pixels.

Re: Bad Emacs Advice

#109
post #47

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Just like a good salad, a pizza has 6 things: salt, crunch, fat (cheese), acid (tomatoes), sweet (pineapple/mango/fig or a stewed sweet tomato sauce) and umami (Parmigiano Reggiano/Grana Padano/etc or anchovy). But not all 6 in every bite. Most Americans use a fairly sweet pizza sauce. Adding pineapple to that makes it too sweet. But I like my sauce with more tomato acid, so a little bit of fig or pineapple complemen…

Most americans use a fairly sweet everything. God even their barbecue is full of sugar. I have the impression the whole country is sugar addicted. I'm from a culture where mixing salty and sweet stuff is considered abhorrent (south america), I could not find a single food I liked in the time I spent in the US (except desserts), and was soon forced to cook myself or I'd barely eat at all.

It gets added to pretty much every prepared food here whether you like it or not. Even "staples" like bread have sugar added even to the "healthy" brands. It's easy to get addicted when it's difficult to avoid unless you cook every meal at home from scratch. (And even then you have to be careful because some ingredients have sugar added to them.) There are many of us that don't like the situation but once you're addicted your tastes change and when everything around you keeps sneaking it in it's hard to eliminate from your diet.
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