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At least one, considering that PG wrote he used vi. Apart from that, I think an 'easy' editor would help beginners. I you know neither Emacs nor Lisp, Emacs is
by fp 18y ago
At least one, considering that PG wrote he used vi.
Apart from that, I think an 'easy' editor would help beginners. I you know neither Emacs nor Lisp, Emacs is quite a tough beast.
- zandorg 18y agoI should have learned Emacs at University, but they stopped teaching it the year before I arrived. And it's too much of a learning curve to learn it on my own.
- DTrejo 18y agoIs there any sort of beginner/self-learner friendly tutorial for emacs? I think many people would like to use emacs, but run into too many barriers.
- elq 18y agoThe tutorial built into emacs is actually quite good. C-h t
- newt0311 18y agoYeah. Emacs is a massive pain to learn. In my case, I forced myself to stop using other tools so I would have to learn it. Come to think about it, thats pretty much how I learn everything. I learnt about linux after I forcefully removed windows from my laptop and I learned how to use bash after I forced myself to stop using nautilus.
- kirubakaran 18y agoThis is a good starting point: Learning GNU Emacs http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565921528/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565921528/ This might ease some pains: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs
- DTrejo 18y agoThanks for the links. And thanks for all the advice guys.
- comatose_kid 18y agoI learned it on my first job - probably the best way to learn since you can learn from other pros.
- brianobush 18y agoEmacs is a great editor, but word of caution: you will spend countless hours customizing it. I think after 15 years of use, I have gained those lost weekends hacking elisp :)
- ken 18y agoI've never tried it, but I know of people using Cusp, the Lisp extension for Eclipse: http://bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/ http://bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/
- kirubakaran 18y agoPG uses vi to code in Lisp, used to copy-and-paste to repl but he now drags-and-drops code to repl!!!!! 0_o (I am not kidding)