Where the hell is the "meta" key and why does every command tutorial online talk about it.
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Remnant of the type of keyboard that Emacs was developed on. Also the same place that the Super, Hyper, and Compose keys originate from
You can map it through your X server/Wayland compositor, but if not Emacs recognizes Alt and Esc as valid meta keys
It took me a while to think in lisp.
Thame.
Definitely display-buffer-alist for me. I was using purpose-mode for the longest time but I think I finally managed to get display-buffer-alist working mostly how I want.
Mind to share it?
At the moment I think I only have the magit-status in the same biffer.
I also moved from evil mode to meow a year or so back, which was sort of a big change for me:
You don't usually split buffers, maybe windows?
ah yes an oopsie on my end :p
isn't it Frames in Emacs context?
not that i use or need it often, but terminology is (obviously) not that easy
Frame (what the window manager calls Window)>Window>Buffer. These are probably concepts that come from a text based terminal age.
Frames are the outer-most container for windows. I may be wrong on this, but there is 1 frame per instance of emacs, or emacs-client
Now I'm curious whether the emacs concept of frames is older than the desktop environment concept of a window... And what exactly a new frame means in a tui environment. I make new frames all the time, but I'm usually in a GUI environment.
Emacs is from 1975 I think? So it's very possible 🙂
Keyboard macros.
keyboard macros are so good, and using consult to go through old ones is great UX.
I can never remember the kmacro ring commands so I used to just redo everything.
Oh, I agree. I just never remember to use them until I'm done and realize I could have used a macro.
Yeah, clearly the emacs concept of windows is older (or they'd be called panes or something)