What’s new in Emacs 28.1?

Post by gjvc » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 9:52 PM UTC

WhatIsDukkha wrote: post #232

gjvc wrote: post #140

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it is, and i do, but i got bored of doing that a few years ago, and prefer to use 100% packaged stuff.

apt install guix :) This gives you guix "FD" and its great on top of debian for emacs especially (and you can move a lot of your emacs packages into guix as well). The apt packages handles most of this but its good to follow along a little - https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Installati...

Post by tom_ » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

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Are you using viper or evil-mode often (or some other thing which gives emacs vi bindings, I think there are a couple)? Because navigating text with emacs gives me the emacs pinky, I'm wondering how folks deal with that. Transposed cpslck with ctrl?

> Because navigating text with emacs gives me the emacs pinky, I had RSI issues early in my career (not Emacs related), and learned some tricks that come handy with Emacs. Your keyboard has two control keys. Use both of them. In particular, use the "opposite" one. If you want to press C-c, use the right Control key with your right hand. If you want to press C-l, use the left control key with your left hand. This way…

Post by Semiapies » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 10:14 PM UTC

spudlyo wrote: post #117

R0flcopt3r wrote: post #110

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The trick is to hit ctrl with the part of your hand where your pinky attaches to it. Now all you do is rotate your wrist slightly, and you hit ctrl. Doesn't work very well on flat/low-profile keyboards, doable with thinkpads, not at all possible on macbooks.

This trick gave me some pretty bad pain in my left hand after a month or so. Remapping control to CAPS LOCK worked for me for years, but what really helped was when I switched to a keyboard that had six keys on each thumb cluster, which allowed me to map control and meta to the thumbs.

Post by antics9 » Wed, Apr 06, 2022, 10:58 PM UTC

klik99 wrote: post #37

> Adding right-click context menus is a natural extension to Emacs’s already-extensive support for the mouse (even if a lot of people don’t use it.) If emacs could support plan9 acme-style chords with custom commands then I'd probably use the mouse a lot more in it - acme convinced me that mousing around can be just as fast as being on the keyboard if the UX is well designed.

Post by etra0 » Thu, Apr 07, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

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I remember seeing vim as a complex solution for text editing, and I didn't touched it for that same reason. A couple of years later I spent sometime learning it and now it's my day-to-day tool for writing code. I feel the same with Emacs, I've been reading (very little) about it and I wonder if I dedicate the same time I did for learning vim I'd be in the Emacs bandwagon, but at the same time I don't feel that curiou…

For me, the big feature in editors is mouseless editing. With emacs my fingers never have to leave the keyboard. When I started out in the Dark Ages, vi offered the same benefit, but multiple buffers were easier in emacs, so I ended up with emacs. I use some emacs extensions (e.g. ctags recently), but that's a secondary benefit. So from my perspective, you've already gotten most of the benefit just with vi. YMMV. If…