Google+ is actually quite useful. Blogs is going the ways of dinosaur. In social networks, you can write, interact with people, immediately, post pictures, hangout (real-time text chat, voice chat, video chat). And it's all much easier than running a blog. If you follow web tech communities (e.g. TechCrunch, etc.), you know that death of blogs have been written on the wall for a few years. With few exceptions, such as professional blogger. (for a fun intro of g+, see: What is Google Plus and Google+ Songs (humor).)
Anyway, i wanted to say that running a emacs page on g+ have already been useful to me, even just after a few days. I learned emacs tips. Here's today's post.
Some slightly advanced emacs tips.
① I just learned about Keyboard Macro Ring today after 10+ years emacs using. (Thanks to Jorge A Alfaro Murillo.)
② A info doc node in emacs can be referenced by a elisp expression. For example:
(info "(emacs) Keyboard Macro Ring"). Put cursor at end of paren then call “eval-last-sexp” 【Ctrl+x Ctrl+e】. That'll take you to the emacs doc. The argument to “info” is string of the node's name.③ When browsing emacs info doc inside emacs, you can get the node's name by calling “Info-copy-current-node-name” 【c】.
keyboard macro is a time saver. If you don't know the basics, see: Emacs Keyboard Macro and Examples.
My emacs g+ and Twitter pages can be found at: Xah Lee Feeds. Please Subscribe! I will still write blogs. But it's more for heavy weight tutorials, and will be focused on elisp. (because, after a few years, all emacs tips all seem to be repetitions) Brief practical daily tips goes to @ErgoEmacs Twitter and ErgoEmacs g+. Thank you for reading.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'll certainly not follow you on G+, not until they put rss feeds, allowing me to keep informed of new articles without subscribing to it nor creating a g+ page.
But I'll continue to follow you there.
See ya
looks like i'll have to keep blogs going. ^_^
ReplyDeletemcat here,
ReplyDeletei still read all your articles, but not gonna join google --- i was /very/ close to joining because i wanted to say about that new japanese turbine, it's an old idea.
also i won an aerospace design competition building a wind turbine, and a cowl (its not called a lens turbine, the proper engineering term is a 'cowl', like how a difuser is not called a 'cone') was the trick. also cowls are not used for high-speed winds, and japan doesn't have those, so they can use cowls