On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:33:23PM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:14:22PM -0600, lee wrote: > > That's what I mean: How do you know all that? > > years of using emacs... ;-) i follow two emacs-related newsgroups, i regularly > consult emacs documentation, i read the wiki http://www.emacswiki.org/, i > experiment, that sort of thing.
Ha, it can be very frustrating. When you want to do a simple thing, you don't want to spend years on following newsgroups and reading documentation and testing. I've been using emacs for a very long time, but never got to using it for more than an editor ... The good thing is that if I want it to do something, there's usually a solution that can do it better than I would have thought of --- but the problem is to find out how to get it to do what I want. > emacs has a lot of built-in documentation. just check out the help function by > typing 'C-h ?'. There's something wrong with the documentation I have. I seem to be missing at least some info packages, and I haven't found out yet which package I need to install to get all the documentation. I'm sure it's somewhere there, just not installed.
