Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:11:51 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, james.wilde@telia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991125201151.D316@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19991125141842.49736@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> <19991124103253.B2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <19991124135521.44585@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991124162753.A21217@penguin.ipunet.com> <19991125141842.49736@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 02:18:42PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 November 1999 at 16:27:53 -0500, Andrew G. Luyt wrote:
>
> > I've found out that overall, my productivity has gone up with emacs,
> > though there are special circumstances where I say to myself 'grrr,
> > I wish I were using vi'. I have yet to figure out how to repeat my
> > last command in emacs, a la '.' in vi, for instance.
>
> m-p (that's the Meta key, usually mapped to Alt). This will give you
> the previous non-trivial command in the minibuffer. Repeated m-p will
> go further back in the command history, m-n will go forward. You can
> edit the command before reissuing it.
>
Doesn't work for me :( C-h k M-p gives "M-p is undefined"
BTW Greg, you mentioned that you use emacs for composing e-mail with
mutt, which is what I'm doing now. Is there a way to make it (mutt)
open another buffer in an emacs window that's already running rather
than starting another instance of emacs?
> > I still use vi for quickie jobs like editing config files, as I find
> > it's more convenient to just type vi in the xterm I'm already in, as
> > opposed to switching desktops to the copy of emacs I keep running at
> > all times.
>
> You really need to be running X. Otherwise I tend to agree.
>
> Greg
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