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   Alex Hall (alexhall@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 06:27:07 JST Alex Hall

   I had some time at work while waiting for responses, so tried to get a little deeper into Emacs. I'm kind of getting some of it, but beyond the basic terms, I'm not sure. I wanted a PHP mode, for instance, and installed one after some problems. Now I have no idea what to do. Emacs is saying something about unbalanced parentheses, though my file is blank, and the config page for this mode assumes more Emacs knowledge than I have. I haven't even gotten to EmacSpeak or Speech-L yet.

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     Alex Hall (alexhall@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 06:27:09 JST Alex Hall

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     I understand the theory. Hotkeys exist, some of which immediately do things (ctrl-g), others of which await input (alt-x). Buffers are places for text to live, from files, to the clipboard, to temporary scratchpads. There's neat stuff here. I just wish there were gentler introductions to it all.