Nice. Thanks Peter. I use the n, p and v navigations now, but always want to do that vim / Ctrl-d thing, lol. I figure I just need to spend some time getting used to emacs' navigation idioms. It's going to take a lot of doing to pull me away from vim habits.
Tim On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Peter Buckley <buckmeist...@gmail.com>wrote: > ** In emacs you can give a number to preface many commands, e.g. C-37 C-n > will perform "next line" 37 times, and C-37 C-p will perform "previous line" > 37 times. You can setup keybindings for these as well, but I find the basic > navigation commands like C-v/M-v (up/down a page) and C-l (center current > line in the buffer) to be sufficient. > ------------------------------ > *From: * Timothy Washington <twash...@gmail.com> > *Sender: * clojure@googlegroups.com > *Date: *Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:08:28 -0400 > *To: *<clojure@googlegroups.com> > *ReplyTo: * clojure@googlegroups.com > *Subject: *Re: Rounding the edges of an Emacs beginner > > Far out - this is great stuff. Thanks guys. > > Wrt to moving down (or up) a block, vim-style, what I mean is the following > (all functionality in 'Command Mode'). > > In Vim , you press *Ctrl-d* and *Ctrl-u* to go down and up a block > respectively. Depending on the size of your window, it moves the cursor > about 1/3rd of the way down (or up) the screen. This is very handy to have > when just browsing a buffer. You can be more precise by pressing 37k, to > move the cursor up 37 lines, etc. > > For whatever reason, I haven't been able to find something similar in > Emacs. > > > Tim > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com > > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> just a few follow-ups... >> >> On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 4:13:47 AM UTC+2, frye wrote: >> >> - ? howto list modes engaged >> >> Aside from the already mentioned C-h m (aka M-x describe-mode) you will >> want to use >> >> * C-h k (M-x describe-key) followed by some keybinding to find out what >> that keybinding does >> * C-h w (M-x where-is) followed by the name of some command to find out >> what keybinding exists for that command >> * C-h a PATTERN (M-x apropos) to search for PATTERN in command names and >> variables (ah, I miss hyper-apropos from XEmacs) >> * C-h v VARIABLE (M-x describe-variable) to see the documentation for a >> variable in ELisp (use C-c C-d d on Clojure symbols to see their >> documentation from SLIME) >> * C-h f FUNCTION (M-x describe-function) to see docs for an Elisp-function >> * and finally C-h ? to find out what other help is available >> >> The built-in help system of Emacs is one of its greatest strengths. >> >>> >>> - >>> >>> ? Can you use Emacs / Slime / CDT (debugging) with Ruby / Rails >>> >>> ? howto do Code completion (clojure, and elisp ) >>> >>> >>> Try TAB in the REPL and M-TAB in a Clojure-buffer when you are connected >> to a running image. >> >> >>> As a VIM'er, I'm trying to do the following using emacs navigation, but >>> seem to have missed the levers to pull. I'm using a vim navigation >>> plugin <http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home>, which helps a lot. >>> >>> >>> - ? set line numbers >>> >>> >> I use linum.el written by Markus Triska: >> (when (try-require 'linum) ;; try require is just a minor wrapper which >> checks, whether a lib is available >> (global-linum-mode)) >> >> >>> - ? go to line 'n' >>> >>> Since my fingers are used to M-g I bind that key to goto-line : >> (global-set-key (kbd "M-g") #'goto-line) >> >> >>> - ? how to jump to matching parentheses >>> >>> Meta with left and right cursor keys. Actually those are forward-sexpand >> backward-sexp >> >>> >>> - ? move down a chunk like in vim >>> >>> What does that mean? >> >>> >>> - ? yank 'n' lines -> emacs yank puts back some 'killed' text ; HOWTO >>> copy >>> >>> Mark things by first enabling the mark with C-SPC. Move around using your >> usual command. Copy to the kill-ring with M-w or cut the text and copy it >> to the kill-ring using C-w. After that you can yank (Emacsspeak for >> 'paste') from the kill ring with C-y. Try M-y right after a C-y to get >> older elements on the kill-ring. For marking, try what C-M-SPC does, also >> hit it several times in a row. >> Warning: if your finger's memory learns this, using modern IDEs may feel >> awkward. >> >> Regards, >> Stefan >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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