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

  • mtw@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Where the hell is the “meta” key and why does every command tutorial online talk about it.

    • Drew@sopuli.xyzOP
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      6 days ago

      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.mlEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Oh, I agree. I just never remember to use them until I’m done and realize I could have used a macro.

    • frankenswine@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      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·
        6 days ago

        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·
        6 days ago

        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

  • Andy@fosstodon.org
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    6 days ago

    @crmsnbleyd
    Do/undo/redo as a non-linear construct broke my brain more than a little. Even after all this time it’s still somewhat cryptic. Packages like `vundo’ have been indispensable for visualizing the decidedly non-linear, non-circular, zig-zag of previous do, undo, and redo.

      • Andy@fosstodon.org
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        5 days ago

        @crmsnbleyd
        I tend to use undo-fu more often for sure. Typically the simpler word processor style of managing things is all I need, and for code there’s version control.

        Honestly I’d say if you’re happy with undo-fu there’s no real reason to go back. Unless you’re curious and want to explore, which I’d never discourage either!