| Re: *MOST* useful feature! [message #33129 is a reply to message #33128] |
Mon, 09 December 2002 15:59   |
JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999
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On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:50:00 -0700, Alex Schuster wrote:
> david@dfanning.com (David Fanning) wrote:
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>> JD Smith (jdsmith@as.arizona.edu) writes:
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>>> to the IDLDE shell. Does it like it? Probably not. IDLWAVE will
>>> take that code, slap an END statement at the end, and .run it as a
>>> $MAIN$ level routine. Excellent for trying out individual pieces of a
>>> routine, complete with real control blocks, at a time.
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>> Oh, I knew it ... :-(
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> Some time, I _will_ learn Emacs.
Try:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/emacs/emacs.html
or
http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/~lvssso/emacs/guide.htm l
or even better yet, start Emacs, then hit "Control-h" then "t".
This advice written in 1985 from a tutor of Emacs may help:
EMACS is the name of a text editor that everyone around here,
sooner or later, learns how to use. (So far the longest hold-out
has been about three months.) Learning to use EMACS is exactly the
same as learning to ride a bicycle. It is awkward,
counter-intuitive, frequently painful, and the documentation is no
help at all. Bicycles are optimized for efficient use by those who
already know how; they are not optimized for the learning
period. Neither is EMACS. One of the most painful parts of learning
to ride a bicycle is enduring the snotty condescension of those who
go whizzing by no-hands, bragging about how easy it is. Be prepared
to have that happen as you struggle with EMACS as well.
At least the documentation is better now:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-21.2/html_chapter/emacs_toc. html
JD
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