On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Joel Gwynn wrote:
> It does color-coding and auto-indenting. It has a menu so you don't have
> to learn all those Ctrl and Esc keystrokes, but if you learn the ones you
> need (I get by with about 10), you'll be at home in a telnet session.
> Don't be afraid.
I'm also an emacs junkie :) To me, many of the Ctrl and Esc sequences
are second nature, but they can definitely be arcane to learn. One
thing I found helpful was to print out a copy of the reference card,
an keep it next to my keyboard while working. Spending a little time
with the tutorial (C-h t) will probably help as well.
If you want to do a lot of customization to the editor, learing a
little lisp is probably a necessity. If you have access to version
20, there's a front end (M-x customize) that will write the lisp code
into your .emacs, but be prepared to do some manual editing if you
need it to be backward-compatible with earlier versions.
And if you're ever bored, there's always doctor :)
--
Steve Revilak
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