MSL2009. Emacs

Emacs Juan A. Suárez Romero Master on Free Software

List of topics ● Debate about editors ● Emacs state of art ● Emacs concepts and terms ● Working with emacs ● Common use modes ● Emacs Lisp Master on Free Software

Introduction ● What work do you usually do? ● Thinking about usual tasks for a hacker ● What do you usually do in your daily work? Or what tasks do you guess you are going to do? ● Tip: reading/editing text and "using" it for different purposes (code, emails, documentation, etc.) Master on Free Software

Introduction (II) "The editor should be an extension of your hand: make sure your editor is configurable, extensible, and programmable." The Pragmatic Programmer ● If you are a hacker you are going to handle code most of the time, you have to choose a tool that improves your performance Master on Free Software

Emacs: text editor? ;-) ● It is the tool chosen by a lot of smart developers ● History, is was one of the first applications of the free software movement, there was commercial versions in the beginning though ● It stands for "Editing Macros", rumour has it that it is a play on some Stallman ice cream store Master on Free Software

Emacs: text editor? ;-) (II) ● The truth is that it is a Lisp interpreter that allows you to edit text, among many other things ● Editors wars Master on Free Software

Emacs concepts, terms and initial contact ● use the refcard http://marc-abramowitz.com/download/emacs_22_reference_card.pdf ● meta key (M), control key (C) ● file, buffer, frame and window ● modes: major and minor ● movement commands ● mark and point Master on Free Software

Emacs concepts, terms and initial contact (II) ● you do not cut, you kill, and you do not paste, you yank ;-) ● functions and key bindings ● undo ● cancel commands ● search and replace ● configure .emacs Master on Free Software

Emacs concepts, terms and initial contact (III) ● obtaining help ● macros, powerful and easy to use way to repeat series of commands ● define macros ● use last macro ● you can name it, save it and bind it to key Master on Free Software

Interesting modes (C-h m) ● Text mode ● C mode ● Compile mode ● GUD mode ● shell modes ● Cscope / ECB ● VC mode Master on Free Software

References ● http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ● http://www.emacswiki.org/ ● Learning GNU Emacs, Third Edition, by Debra Cameron (Author), James Elliott (Author), Marc Loy (Author), Eric Raymond (Author), Bill Rosenblatt (Author) Master on Free Software

Acknowledgments ● Alejandro García Castro Master on Free Software

MSL2009. Emacs

by Juan A. Suárez Romero on Feb 11, 2010

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