[once again sliding off-topic, with subject changes not keeping up ;] On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:45:30PM -0400, skidley wrote: > > I like this method it sounds very useful but I get lost when you talk > > about emacs, I'm not familiar with Emacs I use pico as my editor due to > > its simplicity. Would you mind explaining exactly how I could set emacs up > > to easily search for packages like this? > > You could probably use Pico for this as well. I specified emacs because it > has a reverse search: hit C-r and you search backwards. That lets me > create the file by entering the name of the CD, then reading each CD. One of emacs's nicities is it's on-thefly search. You get partial search reasults immedietly. I wish vim had than :( Anyway: C-s (Control-s, on emacs jargon) for forward search. C-r - for backward search. pico's key bindings, as well as bash's, are based on emacs' ones. C-a and C-e work just fine in emacs. xemacs is better configured in Mandrake than (gnu)emacs. (at least: last time I tried), so you should start with it. > > I suppose if pico doen't have a reverse search, you can build the file by > reading the CD, then entering the label. That way, you find the package > you want, then search forward to the label. > > Also, for building the file, emacs lets you revert (reload) the buffer, > which is easier than closing it down and re-opening it to reload the > buffer. > > Emacs has a tremendous learing curve; after almost ten years with emacs > and variants, I'm still learning about it. But itis a very powerful > environment, so I have found it well worth learning. I used to do a lot of > work on NT and W9x, where I also used emacs, and found it the best editor > available. So I also recommend it for portability. I believe vi is > available for NT, but I am not aware of any ports of pico to NT. Of course it is, as part of PC-PINE . But why bother? There are plenty of good editors (better, more intuitive and with better licences) for windows. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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