Re: Using Emacs

[Andreas Roehler]

Graham Smith schrieb:
> I have just discovered Emacs and I now understand why people talk 
> about living in Emacs. To help me get a feel for how much of my work I 
> might be able to move into Emacs, I wondered if people might be 
> willing to share how much of their work is done in Emacs.
>
> I am using  Windows (for the time being at least), and I am not a 
> programmer, but I will use Emacs as a front end for R. I am therefore 
> interested in Emacs as a writing, information/time management tool 
> etc. I have installed Org.mode and I am very impressed with this.
>
> As it is going to need a little bit of thought on how to structure my 
> new Emacs world, I would appreciate any examples of how you use Emacs 
> and hints on "best practice" with Emacs.
>
> So any comments would be gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham

As there are thousands of things worthwhile to tell
here just one:

With a setting of variable `dired-listing-switches' to
"lart", last edited files are always at sight, i.e. at
the bottom of the dired-buffer.

M-x costumize-variable...

That var may also changed on the fly every time you use
`dired,' while sending the universal argument C-u
before. In that case you will be prompted for the value.

There are other ways to come back to last edited files,
`recent-files mode`, a mode called "desktop" and
probably much more. I prefer the method above, because
its half-automatic, still let you select by hand at the
right place.

BTW: With some Emacs-Lisp knowlegde the fun starts

C-h i, m, Emacs Lisp Intro

Have a nice day

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Andreas Roehler