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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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[–] AndyScott@fosstodon.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

@crmsnbleyd
Do/undo/redo as a non-linear construct broke my brain more than a little. Even after all this time it's still somewhat cryptic. Packages like `vundo' have been indispensable for visualizing the decidedly non-linear, non-circular, zig-zag of previous do, undo, and redo.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i just use undo-fu, maybe I should try using the vanilla undo

[–] AndyScott@fosstodon.org 1 points 5 days ago

@crmsnbleyd
I tend to use undo-fu more often for sure. Typically the simpler word processor style of managing things is all I need, and for code there's version control.

Honestly I'd say if you're happy with undo-fu there's no real reason to go back. Unless you're curious and want to explore, which I'd never discourage either!