Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Complexity of computing w/ Emacs

[Chris Parsons]

On 06/07/2005 09:08, Chris Parsons wrote:
> On 06/07/2005 06:44, Allen Halsey wrote:
> 
>>But extrapolating from my progress these last 6 weeks, I feel I have a
>>two years to go before I achieve effectiveness in computing in a Emacs +
>>Planner + Gnus environment. And even that timeline I'm not so sure of.
> 
> 
> I'm two years into rediscovering emacs, and I feel like I've still got
> another two years to go :D

Oops - a clarification. I achieved effectiveness about six months after
installing emacs - planner + gnus took about a month of use.

I meant achieving *maximum effectiveness* - I'm already a long way past
what I could achieve with other tools - yet I learn new useful stuff to
speed me up every week.

Discovering the power of recentf is a good example of this. I edit many
many different files, a lot of them remotely via Tramp/SSH on different
client servers all around the world. recentf keeps 500 last opened files
on a list for me.

I've bound (recentf-open-files) to C-M-r, so I quickly hit C-M-r C-M-s
and type in a few characters (or a quick regexp) for what I'm looking
for, and hit enter twice. Tramp then loads the file for me in a few
seconds - with ssh private keys set up I don't even need to type in a
password.

No other editor even comes close to this functionality at this speed.

Chris

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