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On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:05, darren kirby wrote: |
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> quoth the Lord Sauron: |
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> <snip> |
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> > What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and |
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> > useful editor, and I would like to learn to use it (vi and/or its |
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> > many variants is next on my list, so no emacs vs. vi wars please) |
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> > so any assistance would be very helpful. |
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> This is but a taste of the pain and suffering you will experience |
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> when you use emacs. Just use vim already ;) |
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> Seriously though...I am not familiar with emacs but I think your |
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> problem may be solved in one of two ways |
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> 1. Configure emacs to use us-ascii as the default charset (no idea |
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> how). 2. Configure your console to use a unicode charset (see [1]) |
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> Just taking a shot in the dark here... |
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Much more confused than before. I get why I'd want to use unicode, but |
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the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup other |
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than mine and they threw me off real quickly. |
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I also spent some time looking through the Gentoo Wiki and found that |
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there's a grand total of one article about emacs. Not much help. |
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I'll keep trying though. |
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