[HN Gopher] Emacs Manual for ITS Users (1981) ___________________________________________________________________ Emacs Manual for ITS Users (1981) Author : susam Score : 24 points Date : 2022-08-07 08:54 UTC (14 hours ago) (HTM) web link (dspace.mit.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (dspace.mit.edu) | mike-the-mikado wrote: | It is remarkable how many things listed in this manual will still | work, more than 40 years on, in modern emacs. It is probably not | surprising that the basic text navigation is unchanged, but it | had incremental search (on C-S/C-R). Many computer users might | have imagined that this was a recent invention. | | The M-S keybinding, to centre a paragraph has only be recycled in | recent versions of emacs. | | And the tags tables (with the visit-tags-table function and M-.) | is also there, though I note that language support, particularly | for languages that had not been invented, has been widened in | recent years. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-07 23:00 UTC)