[SGVLUG] Emacs class at NullSpaceLabs this Saturday

Matthew Campbell dvdmatt at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 20:53:16 PDT 2016


Ergh, autocomplete - *shudders*

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On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
> I gotta say a dozen years of Emacs key bindings gave me carpal tunnel
> in both hands.  Immediately switching to vim and a GoldTouch ergo
> delayed the surgeries five more years.
>
> But Emacs was always a better debugging IDE for C code than VIM (which
> takes some misguided pride in NOT being an IDE).
>
> Today I cannot resist the autocomplete darkside of KDevelop for C/C++,
> Eclipse for Java, PyCharm for Python, and vim for the odd config file
> over ssh.
>
> -braddock
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Rich Pinder <rpinder at usc.edu> wrote:
>> OUCH baby !  Hey, since emacs on Solaris version 'something' in the 90's....
>> I've always said  if it works, dont fix it !
>> I did load a linux box once using some tool where during install ONLY VIM
>> was available - cute little toy ;-)
>>
>> Headin out to catch a ride on the Long Island RailRoad out a ways, then a 40
>> mile bike ride back.  And YES, I'll get the Senior discount on the ticket !!
>>
>> take care
>> Rich
>>  (Mr Riehl... are you still out Luggin ?)
>>
>> r
>> On 6/3/2016 6:12 PM, Sean O'Donnell wrote:
>>
>> Does that $20 include a Senior discount meal of liver and onions? Emacs is
>> for geezers... Let it go!
>>
>> Sorry, just an obligatory vim-user response. Carry on... ;-P
>>
>> *get that damn vim off my lawn!*
>>
>> On 05/13/2016 10:19 AM, Lan Dang via SGVLUG wrote:
>>
>>> This Saturday's NullSpaceLabs class is on Emacs.  It is from 2pm to 4pm.
>>> It is intriguing to me as I've spent years mastering the vim text editor and
>>> pretty much ignored Emacs.  But this seems like a very good opportunity to
>>> learn Emacs and its capabilities from a power user.
>>
>>
>



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