Re: [Fhsst-authors] Potpourri

[Peter Hutnick]

Sam Halliday wrote:

> sorry... you "don't like pain"... how? :-)
>
> my DVI and PS viewers all auto update as i update the relevant file. and
> from within emacs all i need to do is hold in control and type "c b" and
> the current file gets turned into PS, or "c c" and the whole book
> appears. i never need to go to a terminal and type make or anything. i
> can also do cvs commits from within emacs with C-"x v v", amoung many
> other other great things...

Oh, so "all" I have to do is memorize a seemingly endless list of 
pseudo-mnemonic key combinations?  Brilliant!

With intuitive commands like C-"x v v" (how on /earth/ does one type 
that?) who would want to resort to arcane commands like "cvs commit?"

But all sarcasm aside, I have made several good faith efforts to learn 
emacs.  The most recent was only a month or so ago.  I had command 
references pasted all over the place.  I made little labels for my 
keyboard keys (I touch-type, hence the unbearably long emails ;-)  ).  I 
/wanted/ to like emacs, but it beat me like Caradhras.

-Peter