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Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu
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wilnerthomas |
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Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:38:05 +0200 (CEST) |
Sep 18, 2022, 17:53 by philipk@posteo.net:
> Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com> writes:
>
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:53:58 +0000
>>
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>> > Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>> >
>> >> There is a fork of mg (MicroEmacs)[0] that binds C-h q to a command that
>> >> pops up a buffer with these contents:
>> >
>> > I think having a "cheat sheet" like this would be useful.
>>
>> Calling it a "cheat sheet" sounds like a good idea. I've added
>> `cheat-sheet' as an alias:
>>
>> A quick Web search for "emacs cheat sheet" turns up the "GNU Emacs
>> Reference Card" as the first hit -- followed by a bunch of others. And
>> it occurs to me that, for a real newbie, a cheat sheet in a browser
>> window might be easier to work with than one within emacs itself.
>>
A reference card is there to guide you, but most schools have banged in people's
minds that things that help you constitute cheating. Total nonsense.
> I might just be too young and lack the concentration that pre-gen-z
> people had that reference card always appeared too overwhelming for me.
>
You rather read the whole Emacs Manual instead?
> I guess my suggestion isn't much better, it is the same thing just less
> of it...
>
>> -- Bob Rogers
>> http://www.rgrjr.com/
>>
>> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf
>>
Having categorisations does help you focus on the parts you need at a
particular moment.
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, (continued)
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/17
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Bob Rogers, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Bob Rogers, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu,
wilnerthomas <=
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Christopher Dimech, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/18
- Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Christopher Dimech, 2022/09/18
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/19
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Po Lu, 2022/09/19
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Stefan Kangas, 2022/09/19
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Stefan Kangas, 2022/09/19
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/09/19
Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu, Howard Melman, 2022/09/19