A brief intro to why learning to use a text editor matter. Based on ``7 habits of highly effective text editing'' by Bram Moolenaar

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text editing
Based on 7 habits of highly eective text editing by Bram Moolenaar
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2. Outline
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3. Introduction
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4. What are these?
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5. Nakagiri
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6. On Knifes
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7. Learning to Cut Mackerel
Saba no Sanmai Oroshi (Mackerel 3 Piece Filleting)
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8. Keeping your tools ready
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9. Questions
What is your most important tool?
Do you know how to use it?
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10. The Computer is your Toolbox: messy
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11. The Computer is your Toolbox: tidy
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12. And your workshop: messy
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13. And your workshop: tidy
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14. Text editing
We live in a text-based world.
Our productivity depends on how good we are at editing text.
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15. 9 habits of highly eective text editing
Based on 7 habits of highly eective text editing by Bram Moolenaar
http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
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16. Part 0: The basics
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17. Habit 0: learn to type
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18. Habit 1: Avoid the mouse
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19. Part 1: One le
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20. Habit 2: Move around quickly
How to nd the le
Inside the le
Incremental search
Bookmarks
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21. Habit 3: Don't type it twice
Use macros
Learn to be eective with Cut-and-paste
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22. Habit 4: Get help typing it
Automatic expansion
Spelling correction
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23. Habit 5: Text is structured
Most languages we edit are structured
Special modes for them
Learn to use regular expressions
search and replace
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24. Part 2: Multiple les: the project
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25. Habit 6: A le seldom comes alone
Moving quickly to related les
Learn support for
e.g. ctags
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26. Habit 7: Let's work together
Many tools do text editing (eg. email)
can you edit the text in your editor?
worst case scenario: cut-and-paste
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27. Part 3: What now?
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28. Habit 8: Sharpen the saw
Keep learning
observe others
watch video-tutorials
read!
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29. Habit 9: Sharpen the saw. . .
Observe yourself: Reect on what you do
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Detect ineciencies
Find a quicker way
Make it a habit
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30. Habit 9: Sharpen the saw. . .
Learn to extend your editor
(defun dmg-calculate ()
(interactive)
(let ((value (eval (preceding-sexp))))
(kill-sexp -1)
(insert (format %s value))))
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31. Extending your editor is a superpower
Programming is a superpower Scroll to 8:50
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32. How to choose a text editor
Can it do what you need?
Is it powerful?
Is it general purpose?
Is it extensible?
Does it have a large user-base?
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33. On Emacs
It is my most important tool
I can do the majority of my work in it
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34. Demo: the daily activities
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35. Demo: latex
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36. Demo: org-mode
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37. Demo: babel
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38. Learning Emacs: the learning cli
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39. Where to start
http://www.emacswiki.org/
http://emacsrocks.com/
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40. Epilogue
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41. What is this?
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42. In Japan. . .
In Japan we take care of our instruments, our bats and our gloves. We take care
of them well because these things are very important.
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