the last time i needed VI was when i installed boom on the mac mini and had too manually delete all of its files, i found out at that time that vi was not too be had from my recovery disk, so rm too the rescue ;d That, is a another story intirely though:)
Sandi On 1/11/14, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, my, I had a horrible time with VI, because I didn’t RTFM, of course, and > I couldn’t get out of it. More and more control characters kept appearing > from my attempts to press escape and control-q, and then when I found that > exiting was an obscure command like ZZ or something really disjointed, I > complained to a programmer friend of mine. He said it was all completely > logical. Now I know how some people feel when they learn Braille! :) anyway, > Emacs is only slightly less intuitive to my way of thinking, but I took the > time to RTFM before I used it. :) > > Ok, I’ll bite, RTFM is Read the Frigging Manual. :) > > Teresa > > Slow down; you'll get there faster. > > On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <sandi1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> hi Teresa, no problem, usually when i need that kinda editor, i would >> use a proper one, "vi" but that is just me , hides under a very solid >> table, that is all religion though. >> Best >> >> >> Sandi >> >> >> On 1/11/14, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: >>> Going to the terminal and typing "emacs" should be sufficient. >>> Sent from my braille plus 18 >>> >>> Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> hi, Sandi, >>>> >>>> There might be some confusion here. Emacs is a desktop that you start >>>> from >>>> Terminal. Do you have this? i haven’t found it natively or on Macports >>>> or >>>> Homebrew, which you have to install. Can you tell me the steps you use >>>> to >>>> run it? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Teresa >>>> >>>> "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard >>>> P. >>>> Feynman >>>> >>>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <sandi1...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> am not sure how one would install emacsspeak, but emacs seems too be >>>>> installed on my version of ml, >>>>> >>>>> On 1/11/14, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> I may google this today. I so don’t want to install from source, as I >>>>>> don’t >>>>>> have enough knowledge of command line to do this yet. I also don’t >>>>>> want >>>>>> to >>>>>> use VO with emacs, because VO is a bit unpredictable when you get >>>>>> outside of >>>>>> the shell. >>>>>> >>>>>> Teresa >>>>>> >>>>>> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, >>>>>> it's >>>>>> too >>>>>> dark to read."--Groucho Marx >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes, I've also wanted to use emacs with emacspeak for a while now. >>>>>>> Sent from my braille plus 18 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Kjsc Radio <kjsc.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi all, just a simple question, do you know how I could compile >>>>>>>> emacs >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> work in the terminal? And how would i get it working? 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