cross post from reddit, OP: @pizzatorque@mastodon.social
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
18 Comments
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Where the hell is the "meta" key and why does every command tutorial online talk about it.
furikuri@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
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
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
It took me a while to think in lisp.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Thame.
mtw@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Definitely display-buffer-alist for me. I was using purpose-mode for the longest time but I think I finally managed to get display-buffer-alist working mostly how I want.
NanoooK@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Mind to share it?
At the moment I think I only have the magit-status in the same biffer.
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
I also moved from evil mode to meow a year or so back, which was sort of a big change for me:
https://drewsh.com/trying-out-meow
callcc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
You don't usually split buffers, maybe windows?
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
ah yes an oopsie on my end :p
frankenswine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 · 3 pts · 1y
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.
kyoji@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Emacs is from 1975 I think? So it's very possible 🙂
joby@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, clearly the emacs concept of windows is older (or they'd be called panes or something)
Trent@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Keyboard macros.
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
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.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Oh, I agree. I just never remember to use them until I'm done and realize I could have used a macro.