Re: emacs question

[James E. Bailey]

On 09.09.2008, at 02:58, Paul Scott wrote:
> You mean you use Terminal and not XDarwin?
I'm assuming you mean X11, but yes, I have a difficult time  
remembering the keyboard commands for a normal emacs session. I think  
I would go crazy if I tried to remember them for the GUI version. At  
least, I think you're talking about carbon emacs. Besides, setting up  
my environment so that carbon emacs knows where my $PATH is is too  
much work.
> I run Emacs from XDarwin (actually as a background task).  After  
> saving
> my changes I alt-tab to another Xterm where I run my Lily commands
> (usually from up-arrow).  I have a background gv running for each part
> or score I am working which I can also atl-tab to.  I never use Emacs
> commands like compile.  I have discovered that crtl-L will refresh an
> instance of gv.
See, I was trying to reduce the number of programs I have to use.  
Currently, I run gnu screen, and I open nano, bash and tail. I edit my  
files in nano, run lilypond on them in bash, and if there are errors,  
I have them redirected to a file which I constantly monitor with tail.  
In 10.5, files are reloaded when there are changes made to them, so  
just switching to preview shows me the updated file. If I could get  
the whole emacs thing working better, then once I figure out how emacs  
works, I could scrap the whole screen thing altogether.
> To save time I also compile to PS (--ps).
Ha! to reduce clutter, I have lilypond clean up ps files.
> I do the same thing on my Linus box.
>
> Paul Scott