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    Re: Emacs

    Quote Originally Posted by toojays View Post
    I've not used idle, so I don't know how it compares to Emacs with python-mode. Perhaps it is better. But I suspect that idle is not so good at editing LaTeX documents. Or C code. As an Emacs user, I can write/compile/debug all these types of things within the same editor, which makes me more productive.

    Specifically I use:

    * Emacs with cc-mode for editing C and C++ programs, and M-x compile for compiling them. I use this for both PC programs and embedded microcontroller software.

    * Emacs+AuCTeX for editing and compiling LaTeX documents.

    * Emacs+python-mode for editing and executing Python code.

    * Emacs+nxml-mode for editing DocBook documents. Again I use M-x compile to compile the DocBook into HTML.

    * Emacs+guile-debugging mode for editing and debugging Guile code.

    Sometimes I do more than one of the above at once. For instance, if I'm interfacing Guile with a C library, I will be switching between C and Guile regularly.

    I should also point out that I use revision control with all these kind of things. Some projects use SVN and some use CVS, but I don't need to worry about it with Emacs, I use C-x v = and C-x v v and C-x v d and they work they same whether it's CVS or SVN. Oh, and also C-x 4 a is a good one for making ChangeLog entries.

    Just a few reasons why I like Emacs . . .

    does it work well with bash scripting?

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    Re: Emacs

    I've not used it much for this, but I just loaded up a bash script to have a look. It has a shell-script mode with highlighting, indentation and keystrokes for inserting shell contructs like loops and case statements. Looks good to me.

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    Re: Emacs

    Quote Originally Posted by toojays View Post
    I've not used it much for this, but I just loaded up a bash script to have a look. It has a shell-script mode with highlighting, indentation and keystrokes for inserting shell contructs like loops and case statements. Looks good to me.
    sweet i installed it but all the text in it is boxes.. dang something good didnt happen in the install

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    Re: Emacs

    Which package did you install? I suggest you install emacs-snapshot-gtk from Synaptic and use that, it is a bit nicer than emacs21.

    If you are in a non-English locale, you may need to add some font packages, for example xfonts-intl-chinese. Search in Synaptic for xfonts and choose some which look appropriate.

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    Re: Emacs

    Quote Originally Posted by toojays View Post
    Which package did you install? I suggest you install emacs-snapshot-gtk from Synaptic and use that, it is a bit nicer than emacs21.

    If you are in a non-English locale, you may need to add some font packages, for example xfonts-intl-chinese. Search in Synaptic for xfonts and choose some which look appropriate.
    ok it is nicer and it was emacs21 i installed i can tell im going to have to do some research to learn how to use it effcientyl but none the less it looks promising. it still gives me a much of boxes when say i put my mouse over some of the options in the tool bar type thing but thats fine. also im a english user

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    Re: Emacs

    Hi
    I've been program for more than eight months now. It's not much, but I decided to use emacs over vi.
    I believe it's just a question of getting used to things. Now, I've personalized the emacs interface and it's more helpful, but if you don't want to spend the memory on the interface, then I guess the others help just as well.

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    Re: Emacs

    Quote Originally Posted by billyfoxtrot View Post
    If you're interested in learning Emacs, you should check out O'Reilly's "Learning GNU Emacs." I found it to be a very good tutorial and reference, although you could probably find a lot of the same information in the Emacs help pages. I just prefer to have a book in my hands.

    I'll second that! The book was excellent and helped me learn what I needed in emacs very quickly. I kinda "had" to use emacs since I had discovered the handy Emacs VHDL mode and was writing a lot of VHDL code that semester. The book is still a useful reference, and I probably need to dig it out again

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