sasrandme:

use word wrap

M-x visual-line-mode

Emacs displays long lines by truncation

M-x toggle-truncate-lines

kylewpppd:

How it feels to use VIM as an Emacs user.

sarthefirst:

I cringe whenever I’m told to use nano, not gonna lie…

isomorphismes:

The people who brought you man tmux decided to throw in, as a bonus, the perfect sparse intro to vi keyboard shortcuts versus emacs keyboard shortcuts.

    Function                     vi              emacs
    Back to indentation          ^               M-m
    Bottom of history            G               M-<
    Clear selection              Escape          C-g
    Copy selection               Enter           M-w
    Cursor down                  j               Down
    Cursor left                  h               Left
    Cursor right                 l               Right
    Cursor to bottom line        L
    Cursor to middle line        M               M-r
    Cursor to top line           H               M-R
    Cursor up                    k               Up
    Delete entire line           d               C-u
    Delete/Copy to end of line   D               C-k
    End of line                  $               C-e
    Go to line                   :               g
    Half page down               C-d             M-Down
    Half page up                 C-u             M-Up
    Jump forward                 f               f
    Jump to forward              t
    Jump backward                F               F
    Jump to backward             T
    Jump again                   ;               ;
    Jump again in reverse        ,               ,
    Next page                    C-f             Page down
    Next space                   W
    Next space, end of word      E
    Next word                    w
    Next word end                e               M-f
    Paste buffer                 p               C-y
    Previous page                C-b             Page up
    Previous word                b               M-b
    Previous space               B
    Quit mode                    q               Escape
    Rectangle toggle             v               R
    Scroll down                  C-Down or C-e   C-Down
    Scroll up                    C-Up or C-y     C-Up
    Search again                 n               n
    Search again in reverse      N               N
    Search backward              ?               C-r
    Search forward               /               C-s
    Start of line                0               C-a
    Start selection              Space           C-Space
    Top of history               g               M->
    Transpose chars              xp              C-t

janelwang:

What shape is emacs? Courtesy of Jim Weirich

Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.

From: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

 (if (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode) (scroll-bar-mode -1))

 (if (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) (tool-bar-mode -1))

 (if (fboundp 'menu-bar-mode) (menu-bar-mode -1))

in you .emacs turns off scroll- tool- and menu-bar:

also item 5 is a great idea:

One of the most powerful things about Emacs is its ability to swiftly generate a new buffer that isn’t associated with a file or process. Once you get used to using this technique, you’ll sorely miss the functionality in other editors and applications. To create a temp buffer, just switch to it! Ctrl-x b invokes the command switch-to-buffer, and you just type in adsflj or whatever comes out of drumming on the keyboard. Instantly you’ve got yourself a scratchpad,

gbattle:

Real Programmers.

Editor wars.

some programmers use sed: http://wactbprot.tumblr.com/post/15082694100/lol-3-80-vim-5-emacs-user-im-saal-war

LOL^3

80% vim & 5% emacs user im Saal …

… war wirklich lustig!

fantastic collection!

(Source: technotalk)

fadeev:

There are times in life, when a person has a valid moral rights to say loudly and confidently “Type this function declaration for me, you terrible machine!”. Sometimes, it just feels reassuring that a terrible machine is capable of responding to such a claim, even though with some configuration…

fadeev:

What a marvelous thing it is, when typing an innocent character like [ " ] (a string literal quoting delimiter in most programming languages) makes the rest of the text blink in different colors like it’s a dancing ASCII fairy.

No, it’s not marvelous, it’s incredibly annoying. That’s why I’ve…