Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-30 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 29 Aug 2016 at 13:25, John Kitchin wrote: >> You know you're an Emacs user when... > > You select some text in MS Word and Type C-w to cut it... and are very > unhappy when Word closes... Funnily enough, I'm usually happy when Word closes... ;-) (sorry for the noise but I couldn't res

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-29 Thread Vikas Rawal
> On 29-Aug-2016, at 6:55 pm, John Kitchin wrote: > >> You know you're an Emacs user when... > > You select some text in MS Word and Type C-w to cut it... and are very > unhappy when Word closes... Story of emacs users on OS X... Vikas

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-29 Thread John Kitchin
> You know you're an Emacs user when... You select some text in MS Word and Type C-w to cut it... and are very unhappy when Word closes... > > you try to get to the beginning of line and find yourself selecting > everything and losing the positition in a large file. > > Best, -- Professor John

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-08-23, at 23:31, Alex Recker wrote: >> "You know you're an Emacs user when..." > > You try to M-f your way through a URI and accidentally turn it into an > integral. Could you explain this one? Also, You know you're an Emacs user when... you try to get to the beginning of line and fi

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-24 Thread Alex Recker
> "You know you're an Emacs user when..." You try to M-f your way through a URI and accidentally turn it into an integral.

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-23 Thread John Hendy
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Alex Recker wrote: >> And did you know that even outside Emacs you can move/delete wordwise by >> pressing ctrl togeter with the right/left arrows or delete or backspace? > > I'm always surprised by how often C-a/C-e and M-f/M-b work in programs > that aren't Emacs

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-23 Thread Eduardo Mercovich
Hi Alex. > I'm always surprised by how often C-a/C-e and M-f/M-b work in programs > that aren't Emacs. Of course there is probably some historical reason > behind this (as much as I'd like to think Google and Slack had emacs > users in mind). Yes! At least it works in the command line. :) Best.

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-23 Thread Eduardo Mercovich
Hi Jorge. >> | | move | move | del | del | >> | object| prev | next | back | forw | >> |---+--+--+---+--| >> | text | M < | M > | - | -| >> | screen| M v | C v | - | -| >> | paragraph | M p | M n | - | -| >> | senten

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-23 Thread Alex Recker
> And did you know that even outside Emacs you can move/delete wordwise by > pressing ctrl togeter with the right/left arrows or delete or backspace? I'm always surprised by how often C-a/C-e and M-f/M-b work in programs that aren't Emacs. Of course there is probably some historical reason behind

Re: [O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-23 Thread Jorge
On 23 August 2016 at 16:38, Eduardo Mercovich wrote: > | | move | move | del | del | > | object| prev | next | back | forw | > |---+--+--+---+--| > | text | M < | M > | - | -| > | screen| M v | C v | - | -| > | paragraph | M p

[O] Emacs movement keys

2016-08-23 Thread Eduardo Mercovich
Dear Orgers. This is a novice for novices post. Probably all of you here know this, so please bear with me with patience and understanding. Since new users are welcomed to this humble and warm community, I'd like to share a (to me) hidden pearl. After some time using Org, I just... ehem... (coug