I've had quite the tour of text editors in my career. And have settled on Emacs. Today, I sat down and wrote "What's Something You Want to Learn How to Do in Your Editor?" in my personal agenda.
Then I filled it out:
- I want to learn how to do multi-edit within a highlighted region
- I want to learn how to do undo within a highlighted region
(Both of these are possible in Emacs)
So I sat down and learned it, and along the way learned about the amazing: M-x narrow-to-region
But what about you. What's something you want to learn how to do?
Top comments (23)
Exit from Vim XD
When i first started vi, there was no personal internet, or just a few in my country. I was looking for linux, kernel compile etc issues on every Tuesday at school (age 16 withot proper english knowledge) so i had to open a new terminal to kill vi for first :D
Oh, my heavens. I remember getting stuck in Vim and Emacs without the basic guide to help me start my journey.
Use the github cli... I'm getting tired of having to open the browser to create new repos
Which editor do you use?
I switch between vs code and sublime
On my macOS machine, I installed hub and I believe you can create a repository by:
brew install hubhub createfrom your local repositoryI'm on windows, the commands will be different...
I'll figure it out...
have you tried the
ghcli?Yeah, I did...
But it's kind of silly that I can't push changes from it
yep, definitely. Guess it's not supposed to be a drop in git replacement.
did you ever get
hubto work?I’d like to learn how to use multi-edit in VSCode. I know how to select the same part of several lines at once, and how to select a recurring word, but everything else I have no idea how to do.
You can hold down the ALT key, and click on all places you want the cursor to be. After that, multi-edit will be enabled!
Oh, didn’t know that one, thanks!
All the layout shortcuts
Which editor do you use?
Vscode
One approach I've done is to crawl around and just spend time practicing. One strategy I've done with past mentees who wanted to get better at using short-cuts or hot-keys was to pair with them.
The goal of the pairing session was not to ship code but to practice our editors.
I'd observe when they chose an action that likely had a hot-key but they didn't use it. I'd interrupt them, ask if they wanted to learn that key, and we'd go figure it out; and practice a few times.
In my experience, investing in practicing your editor is worth a an or so month.
I'd like to evaluate a selected expression in debug Mode of vscode. IntelliJ has a evaluate expression tool that I haven't find in vscode
I would like to learn how to code a VSCode extension that uses interactive 2D rendering for e.g. node graphs
I want to learn how to search only the files changed since the last commit. Idk if this is even possible.
You could do this in vim or emacs with a could of lines I expect.
If you were using fzf and ripgrep it'd probably be something people have done before. I'd do it from the command line to launch vim, personally: