External: Follow-up HOW-TO

After reading the previous mentioned - HOW-TO article. Here is what I thought.

(1) It is well written and aimed at anyone. (Yes, even Windows users.)

(2) I like the very first section. What is E-macs. I couldn't of said it better. (Yes, to some people, it is a religion. Not to me, though.) Indeed a very flexible text editor.

(3) Getting E-macs. I already covered that in --- the Tuesday, May 10, 2005 post, titled: Availability.

(4) The mini-buffer, he mentions is the bottom-most line in the E-macs screen. Makes sense. Not that, I've used it that deeply. (Even after "more than a year" of using XEmacs. You just take things for granted, I guess.)

(5) Terms he defines: Files & Buffers (I have covered this, too.), Point & Region, the Windows of the editor, and Frames. (Personally, I avoid the frames. I prefer working with split-windows (the frame) and such.)

(6) Then, discussion about the command keys. (Yes, I've discussed this before, as well.)

(7) Commands for jumping to various places in the buffer.

(8) Essential commands. I should check these out, further.

(9) Then, he discusses the tutorial. Which, again, I have mentioned it and I encourage everyone to spend 15 minutes - following it.

(10) The modes: E-macs, major / minor, then programming mode.

(11) Then, he lists modes which E-macs supports by file typing, for the editor. I'll just list the ones he covers here.

List: C/C++/Java, Perl, Python, shell scripts, (text), Sed? Tcl?, Makefile, authoring, spell-checking (via ispell), HTML, TeX, SGML, & VC (version control). Plus, shell mode. Where you go to the shell, of course.

(12) Then, he writes about customization (.emacs config file) and using packages inside E-macs. (Such as, mail applications)

(13) A list of the E-macs newsgroups. (I should dig up the XEmacs ones & add them here, too.)

GlR