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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Emacs on Windows 7

I have been a fan of emacs as a general purpose editor for decades.  I have long used Epsilon, an emacs clone on PC-DOS and Windows through XP.  It does not seem to work in Windows 7, and installing the open source version was a pain, until I found this.
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6 comments:

  1. SebastianMay 27, 2016 at 6:28 AM

    Emacs? I did not know you were a masochist :)

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  2. Clayton CramerMay 27, 2016 at 8:42 AM

    My first reaction to emacs was disgust, but some of the unique features such as keyboard macros make it a profoundly useful tool.

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  3. rclarkMay 27, 2016 at 7:27 PM

    Let the religious wars begin: vi forever! :)

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  4. SebastianMay 28, 2016 at 5:44 PM

    I am also an adherent to the vi cult.

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  5. Clayton CramerMay 29, 2016 at 7:58 AM

    I can use vile, but the old joke about vi commands being hard to distinguish from line noise comes to mind. dw deletes to end of line; dG to end of file; does d* erase the universe?

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  6. rclarkJune 4, 2016 at 8:06 PM

    No, no - dw deletes to the end of the _word_, d$ deletes to the end of the line. :)

    Yes, noise-like for sure, but my fingers know it. My brain isn't even involved.

    I'll have to try d* and see what happ

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