Re: [9fans] Emacs

[FJ Ballesteros <nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es>]

As I said in a previous message, I think I could be considered as
an "advanced emacs user" (sic, don't blame me); but since I tried
acme I found that most of the things I was doing in a complex way with
emacs could be done in a much simpler way with tiny scripts and acme.

Why don't you just try it, until you learn how to use it well, and then
decide?


Blake McBride ha escrito:
>
> I think one of main problems is that, in spite of the fact that I
> have a quality video board, Plan 9 comes up in a low
> resolution.  It's so low that if I open up an RC window and
> do a man on a command the text partially wraps and is difficult
> to read.  If I could fix that problem I'd feel a lot better.
>
> Things I commonly use in emacs:
>
> intelligent Keyboard macros
> intelligent auto indent
> repeat command n number of times
> Undo
> Query replace
> Scroll one line at a time (up or down)
> Put current line at top of screen
> Narrow region
> Don't wrap lines on display
> Push, pop, and remember locations
> Assign blocks of text to registers (cut and paste more than one block)
> Be able to switch back and forth between two buffers without having to
> select it each time
> Save ALL modified buffers command
> Find matching paren, brace, etc.
> Abbreviations
>
> Can sam or acme do these?  I think these are powerful capabilities.
> Surely I can write whatever I want in ed but these features make my
> life a lot easier and more productive.
>
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