POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Emacs : Re: Emacs Server Time
28 Sep 2024 20:13:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Emacs  
From: Invisible
Date: 15 Apr 2009 04:37:54
Message: <49e59ce2$1@news.povray.org>
>> My God... The Windows native port is a 37 MB download! O_O
> 
> 	They have a Windows port?

It's GNU software. They quite often have Windows ports. Some of them 
don't even require an emulator.

>> Does anybody know what the hell "C-u 10 C-f" is actually supposed to
>> mean?
> 
> 	I believe it means to do C-f many, many times. Don't know for sure as
> I'm not (yet) a real emacs user.

No no, I mean... HOW DO YOU TYPE THAT? What keys is it actually talking 
about?

> 	As for kill and yank, do realize that Emacs is old. I'm not sure cut
> and paste was common editor parlance in those days.

Fair enough. But... pretty strange choice of terms, even if nothing 
existed before.


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