Emacs + Snippets
People use to joke on me about the fact that I use EMACS, some say that I even need to use my toes to acomplish EMACS commands, and so on…
But I keep being even more productive, and every day I figure out new ways to improve it.
I really use EMACS the whole day, I keep editing anything with this awesome editor.
This weekend I was starting a new project, and as I use to, I was needing to repeat the same GPL headers at every file.
So I found myself questioning if it could be more productive than inserting rough templates on my files.
Then I found out this yasnippet, which is totally awesome, and made me be even more productive.
For those who also like emacs, I share my emacs configuration on github.
There is a screencast that I made. Is a EMACS snippet demo.
Hi Gabriel,
I’m trying to learn and get productive with emacs. How have you learned it? Books? Tutorials? Could you give me some hints? Thanks
Hi Adolfo!
Well, I took such a long time to become a emacs hard(ish)-user, I’ve tried about 3 times, but at the last attempt I’ve figured out a good tip:
Disable your arrow keys. On my github you can find the configuration that disables the arrow keys:
(global-set-key (kbd "<down>") 'ignore)
(global-set-key (kbd "<left>") 'ignore)
(global-set-key (kbd "<right>") 'ignore)
It will force you to use the emacs navigation, for instance:
Ctrl-f
Ctrl-b
Ctrl-n
Ctrl-p
Alt-f
Alt-b
Ctrl-v
Alt-v
I hope it helps
VIM rules ;p