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