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Comment on zomg, Evernote and Emacs by vicco

vicco — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:52:00 +0000

is it the same problem for nixnote? I wonder if this would work as an indirect access to evernote.

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How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners | Interesting Reads — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:11:39 +0000

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Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by xpress razor

xpress razor — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:01:00 +0000

Nice tutorial. Once in a while someone posts about Emacs, and I get tempted again to play with the devil. When two three days passes, I find I can’t do something, and I even don’t bother looking it up. I silently go back to vim and wait for yet another tutorial.

Comment on Slice of life: Home improvements by Pat Thomasson

Pat Thomasson — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:05:00 +0000

Focus on what you can do and it tempers the helpless, overwhelmed feeling. That’s a great piece of advice.

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by naivnomore

naivnomore — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:50:00 +0000

Hand drawn one pager is done very nicely. Good work. Succinct intro for beginners. However, It will be nice to have another one pager organized by the most frequently used commands. BTW, what did you use to create this one pager? It is really done very well. Thanks.

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by Pat Thomasson

Pat Thomasson — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:58:00 +0000

This is great. As one of your less code savvy followers, this has prompted me to go a step or two back off the page from where you started and learn a bit about text editors in general. I am curious about VIM, Emacs and some other tools but I am curious about a lot of things. Thanks again for sharing.

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by b3h3m0th

b3h3m0th — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:48:00 +0000

very nice

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Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:41:00 +0000

Fantastic Stuff

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Comment on From cats to keystrokes by sachac

sachac — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:10:00 +0000

Oh, W- is the pseudonym I use for my husband. I’d started using J- to refer to his daughter in my blog because she was younger than 13 then, and it made sense to refer to him similarly.

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by Nrkkalyan

Nrkkalyan — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:31:00 +0000

Nice

Comment on From cats to keystrokes by Gath Gealaich

Gath Gealaich — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:49:00 +0000

What exactly means “W-”? It sounds like a manufacturer designation. Or do other parts of this planet have naming and typographic conventions I’m not familiar with?

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by Dave Marquardt

Dave Marquardt — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:49:00 +0000

Hey, remember how I couldn’t see your drawing? It was a Feedly thing, and I can see the drawing just fine on your web site.

Comment on Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog by Raymond Zeitler

Raymond Zeitler — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:14:00 +0000

Your blog is refreshingly free of advertisements. So I receive it as a pure form of self-expression and an altruistic willingness to help others — like a flower in a harsh land. And I agree with Trevor’s comment, “Money changes how people interact with you.”

But I also think you’re entitled to monetary reward. Hmmm, not sure how to reconcile the two. Perhaps by allowing for donations on a totally separate site, such as philanthropy.org* with a subtle link to your membership page, on which you might present yourself as both a benefactor (which you most certainly are) and a recipient.

You could add a “store” tab to your site. Your product list could include your e-book(s), poster-size hardcopies of sketchnotes, plus consulting services.

Thank you for including me in your list of amazing conversations! It has been amazing!

* This is not an endorsement of the site. I’m not really familiar with it.

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by sachac

sachac — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:08:00 +0000

Hilarity! =) Glad it helped. You can also find keybindings with C-h f

Undo-tree is pretty darn cool. =)

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by Raymond Zeitler

Raymond Zeitler — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:53:00 +0000

Excellent! This 13-year user didn’t know about C-h w . I would always invoke M-x and then stare at the mini buffer for the brief message that says what keystroke (if any) it’s bound to.

Undo was on my short list of must-have text editor features. So it was one of the first things I looked up, and I used it often. But I learned the C-x u keystroke, not C-/, even though the latter is shown on the reference card.

I appreciate the vim help. Sometimes it’s all there is. Besides it’s hilariously funny! :)

Thanks so much!

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by FreakSQuirreL

FreakSQuirreL — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:48:00 +0000

Really nice! I got here after a friend shared a link to your blog :) I will keep spreading your work to help those who want to use emacs.

Btw, you blog is really interesting! keep the good work ;)

greetings from the land of the rising sun ;)

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by vec

vec — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

nice sheet though, maybe that’ll help me to get into emacs

Comment on How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners by vec

vec — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:59:00 +0000

> “Emacs vs. Vi” holy war (one of the classic battles in computer science)

no, not really! computer science deals in way more complex problems.