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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">I learned a huge amount by reading the Symbolics manual on program development. They had a Manual that explained not just how to use the editor, but also how to use capabilities like incremental compilation, that was hugely helpful. I'm going to poke around the internet archive and see if I can find it...</p>
<br><br><p dir="auto">On 21 Feb 2022, at 11:06, mikel evins wrote:</p>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><div id="DEADE558-C0B9-4267-9835-B7728A304301"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Feb 21, 2022, at 10:54 AM, Joakim Sandgren <<a href="mailto:info@joakimsandgren.com" class="">info@joakimsandgren.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I am though, appealed by the total customization possibilities in emacs but also appalled by that learning curve.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">By the way, I learned Emacs in 1988 by starting it up and typing </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Control-h t</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to start the built-in tutorial. Not everyone agrees that it's a good way to start, but it worked for me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--me</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote>
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