Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:54:48 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > > > In message <kkkmp7....@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>, Albert van der Horst wrote: > > > >> An indication of how one can see one is in emacs is also appreciated. > > > > How about, hit CTRL/G and see if the word "Quit" appears somewhere. > > Ah, one has to love user interfaces designed with mnemonic keyboard > commands so as to minimize the burden of rote learning on the user. > Presumably it is G for "Get me the frack outta here!". > > Having noted that the word "Quit" does appear, how do you then *actually* > Quit? Apart from taunting the user, what is it that Ctrl-G is actually > doing when it displays the word "Quit" in what seems to be some sort of > status bar?
I love the idea of emacs taunting the user - it is like all that lisp code suddenly became self aware and decided to join in ;-) Ctrl-G is the emacs interrupt sequence. It cancels what you are doing. Kind of like Ctrl-C in the shell. You quit emacs with Ctrl-X Ctrl-C. Save a document with Ctrl-X Ctrl-S that that is probably enough for the emacs survival guide! If you run emacs in a windowing environment (eg X-Windows or Windows) you actually get menus you can choose save and quit off! Anyway, wrenching the thread back on topic - I use emacs for all my python editing needs (on linux, windows and mac) with pymacs or python-mode (depending on distro). I use the subversion integration extensively. The interactive features of emacs are really useful for testing python code - even more useful than the python interactive prompt for bits of code longer than a line or too. (Open a new window in python mode, type stuff, press Ctrl-C Ctrl-C and have the output shown in a different window. If you messed up, clicking on the error will put the cursor in the right place in the code). -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
