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Emacs & the birth of the GPL (The H)

Emacs & the birth of the GPL (The H)

Posted Apr 7, 2010 15:31 UTC (Wed) by bleakgadfly (guest, #64985)
Parent article: Emacs & the birth of the GPL (The H)

Awesome article! I really just started to use Emacs and are amazed about all the ways it can be used, and this kind of article fits well into my newbie mind. I must point (obviously) out that I probably don't know even 1/5 of the commands and functions available, but those I know I've had great joy of using.

Starting with Emacs also gave me a little kick to try out programming in Lisp, but I don't really know what to code so I haven't tried it out good enough. Only thing I have coded was in Elisp and was a couple of functions with keybindings to get ÆØÅ while editing on my YeeLoong.


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Emacs & the birth of the GPL (The H)

Posted Apr 7, 2010 17:12 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I probably don't know even 1/5 of the commands and functions available
If you include the things in Lisp (which of course you must or you have to ignore unimportant functions like 'newline'), this can be said of any Emacs user, even those of us who've been using it for decades. There's always more to learn!

Emacs & the birth of the GPL (The H)

Posted Apr 7, 2010 22:43 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

FWIW, here's something I wrote about setting Emacs up for writing non-ASCII characters:

http://blogs.fsfe.org/ciaran/?p=147

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