I can not decipher if this is intentional, and I guess I’ll have to find out if it’s annoying in use (it’s merely puzzling for now).Īhhh, a Summary, good, I need to be reminded of how to move about in a text editor. I happily oblige, however I find that if I start at the very tippy top screen and issue two C-v commands to move down two screens, and then issue the ALT-v to move up one screen, my cursor is not positioned at the same line as it would be if I had issued only one C-v command to go down only one screen from the top.
It also suggest I try to move around a few times by issuing (typing) these commands. This of course is wrong, and the tutorial is now telling me I should issue the command of C-v if I want to move down and ALT-v when I want to move up, one “the screen” at a time.
I was being all silly and just using the multitouch trackpad to scroll around the document at leisure. Talking about those few lines, I guess they are there to make the tutorial somehow fit nicely on this standardized unit of measure that they refer to as “the screen”. For some reason I thought of “the left margin” as being something to the side of the text I was reading, like how a margin in a book is the space between the text and the boarder of the actual piece of paper that text is printed on, whereas here the “>” characters simply appear at the beginning of a line some few lines below where this is mentioned. directions for me to follow, haha now I get it. I also see that the tutorial hasn’t been fully updated for the Aquamacs version, since it’s telling me there some characters “>” somewhere at the left margin. Ahhh, I see, the actual tutorial document contains the actual written characters of “>” where there is some call to action for me, i.e. I have a sneaking suspicion it’s not going to be the last new thing I see… I guess there’s nothing wrong with calling it that, I’ve just never seen it before. Why “type” for commands? It’s not really typing when I’m issuing commands, nothing get’s “typed” out on the white “paper” I’m working with. I’m still confused by the wording “type C-x C-c” (this is to save and close, or maybe just close, I haven’t figured it out quite yet).
Aquamacs tutorial pro#
Circles so tight they must have constricted the blood flow to the brain of whoever thought this needed to be anything else than the ALT key… Yes, my macbook pro keyboard has an ALT key, don’t get me started on the stupid option key thing, fuck that. I’m sure I’m the subject of serious ridicule in some very tight circles now. Who is this written for? What the hell is a META key? EDIT has a special key now? Not anywhere I’ve ever been. It means “hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down…”. I found out what “M-something” means from the first few lines (after a paragraph warning me that some of the commands had been altered, presumably because I’m running Aquamacs). Things start flying around as soon as I touch anything, I just deleted the “tutorial” part out of the first line, I hope it still functions as a tutorial, maybe that word was somehow connected to the helpful aspect of the entire document, it wouldn’t surprise me. If I ESC out of whatever mode into thatother mode to try the commands there, it’s just plain confusing. Perhaps Aquamacs is to different from the regular Emacs to actually go through the guided tour, since “typing” c-h actually types "c-h" (I can hear a thousand screams of terror). Painless enough, when I did Ctrl-h and then t, I got a new tab in Aquamacs with the tutorial. I finally have the chance to actually play along the guided tour, and the first thing I tried was to run the tutorial.
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