From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D050F86.9A3CE7@gsyc.escet.urjc.es> From: FJ Ballesteros MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Emacs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:43:50 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a8ee4622-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. > > -------------- > Download source code to my Dynace Object Oriented > Extension to C and Windows Development System from: > http://algorithms.us > Blake McBride (blake@algorithms.us) > Algorithms Corporation - 615-791-1636 - USA