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Of all Emacs features and possible ways to use, what were some of the hardest things to learn or get used to? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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cross post from reddit, OP: @pizzatorque@mastodon.social

Personally mine was just getting around buffers; creating new ones, splitting windows, deleting the ones I don’t need and so on. In the beginning I used to have just a single file open at a time like nano

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[–] callcc@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You don't usually split buffers, maybe windows?

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

ah yes an oopsie on my end :p

[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

isn't it Frames in Emacs context?

not that i use or need it often, but terminology is (obviously) not that easy

[–] callcc@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Frame (what the window manager calls Window)>Window>Buffer. These are probably concepts that come from a text based terminal age.

[–] kyoji@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Frames are the outer-most container for windows. I may be wrong on this, but there is 1 frame per instance of emacs, or emacs-client

[–] joby@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Now I'm curious whether the emacs concept of frames is older than the desktop environment concept of a window... And what exactly a new frame means in a tui environment. I make new frames all the time, but I'm usually in a GUI environment.

[–] kyoji@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Emacs is from 1975 I think? So it's very possible 🙂