From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
Cc: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>, org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re-installing org-mode packages due to annoying message
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 00:15:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF-1L2QUU09j5aiLOGHiAmqFEL7HAOjYNcPNv+0qfPRJAHR-Zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r2z3rdy.fsf@tsdye.online>
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Perhaps I'll try it, just for fun. I'm pretty happy with my layout and
theme, everything, but maybe I could get some ideas.
Thank you,
Alan
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:39 AM Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.online> wrote:
> Aloha Alan,
>
> Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > It is interesting that an old timer like yourself would reach
> > for
> > Spacemacs. I haven't, mostly because I don't think I need the
> > modal model
> > of Vi. The keybindings of Emacs or so convenient and
> > intelligent I find
> > them to be enough. Here's where I might have spent more time in
> > the early
> > days learning the basics better. One of the things I like about
> > Emacs is
> > that I can dance around a page of text, in a manner that the
> > commercially
> > produced text editors and word processors I know have not dared
> > to
> > implement. We are locked in to a dumbed down interface in all
> > the software
> > we encounter. I cannot think of one example just now, but maybe
> > the way
> > one can move back and forth over characters and words. I never
> > learned Vi,
> > except to be able to edit a simple config file if need be.
> >
> > I know I am over my head, and I have been so for the 30-ish
> > years I have
> > been using Emacs and for the time I have used Org-mode. It is
> > more than I
> > can do to keep up with the newer complexities that are cropping
> > up. Yet,
> > just like the plain text files, and the LaTeX source for my one
> > publication, a lexicon of animal names, they live on while
> > documents using
> > the high priced tools are not longer readable or editable. And
> > through all
> > the changes, my little utilities for editing things that only I
> > could
> > probably care about, and I would not expect anyone to care to
> > learn---they
> > still work today. I love it!
> >
> FYI, from another old-timer in over his head, Spacemacs has a simple
> option to enable Emacs key bindings. You don't need to use the modal
> bindings.
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> https://tsdye.online/tsdye
>
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-28 20:19 Re-installing org-mode packages due to annoying message Alan E. Davis
2021-11-28 21:18 ` Tim Cross
2021-11-29 10:28 ` Alan E. Davis
2021-11-29 15:36 ` Thomas S. Dye
2021-12-01 8:15 ` Alan E. Davis [this message]
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