From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 12:46:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC6C514A1B for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 25363 invoked from network); 25 Nov 1999 20:46:19 -0000 Received: from userbz81.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.150.50) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 1999 20:46:19 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA01060; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:11:51 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:11:51 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, james.wilde@telia.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991125201151.D316@marder-1> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991125141842.49736@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message