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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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[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Keyboard macros.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

keyboard macros are so good, and using consult to go through old ones is great UX.

I can never remember the kmacro ring commands so I used to just redo everything.

[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Oh, I agree. I just never remember to use them until I'm done and realize I could have used a macro.