cross post from reddit, OP: @[email protected]

Personally mine was just getting around buffers; creating new ones, splitting windows, deleting the ones I don’t need and so on. In the beginning I used to have just a single file open at a time like nano

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Where the hell is the “meta” key and why does every command tutorial online talk about it.

    • furikuri@programming.dev
      4·
      2 days ago

      Remnant of the type of keyboard that Emacs was developed on. Also the same place that the Super, Hyper, and Compose keys originate from

      You can map it through your X server/Wayland compositor, but if not Emacs recognizes Alt and Esc as valid meta keys

  • joby@programming.dev
    2·
    2 days ago

    Yeah, clearly the emacs concept of windows is older (or they’d be called panes or something)

    • Drew@sopuli.xyzOP
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      2 days ago

      keyboard macros are so good, and using consult to go through old ones is great UX.

      I can never remember the kmacro ring commands so I used to just redo everything.

      • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Oh, I agree. I just never remember to use them until I’m done and realize I could have used a macro.

  • Andy@fosstodon.org
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    2 days ago

    @crmsnbleyd
    Do/undo/redo as a non-linear construct broke my brain more than a little. Even after all this time it’s still somewhat cryptic. Packages like `vundo’ have been indispensable for visualizing the decidedly non-linear, non-circular, zig-zag of previous do, undo, and redo.

      • Andy@fosstodon.org
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        21 hours ago

        @crmsnbleyd
        I tend to use undo-fu more often for sure. Typically the simpler word processor style of managing things is all I need, and for code there’s version control.

        Honestly I’d say if you’re happy with undo-fu there’s no real reason to go back. Unless you’re curious and want to explore, which I’d never discourage either!

    • frankenswine@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      isn’t it Frames in Emacs context?

      not that i use or need it often, but terminology is (obviously) not that easy

      • callcc@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Frame (what the window manager calls Window)>Window>Buffer. These are probably concepts that come from a text based terminal age.

      • kyoji@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Frames are the outer-most container for windows. I may be wrong on this, but there is 1 frame per instance of emacs, or emacs-client

        • joby@programming.dev
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          2 days ago

          Now I’m curious whether the emacs concept of frames is older than the desktop environment concept of a window… And what exactly a new frame means in a tui environment. I make new frames all the time, but I’m usually in a GUI environment.