{"id":2278,"date":"2010-08-13T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2010\/08\/13\/emacs-documentation\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:33:00","slug":"emacs-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2010\/08\/13\/emacs-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"emacs documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span><span>I have proudly owned O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;<i>Learning GNU Emacs<\/i>&#8221; since November 1996. It has always been a very, very valuable supplement to the info mode documentation prepared in Texinfo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><span>That book covers GNU Emacs version 19.30, nowadays I am using version 23.x resp. 22.x. Better GUI integration has happened since and <i>variable customization<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><span>As part of my project &#8220;<i>let&#8217;s create courses and presentations from my e-books!<\/i>&#8220;, I recently also acquired the 3rd edition of that fine book, and I used it today as PDF.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><span>I was always happily searching and replacing in <i>case-ignorant-mode<\/i>. But sometimes my finger do things with emacs, that emacs takes more literally then it was meant. That way sometimes I destroy this and that. LIke my gnus folder and topics structure. One of the minor things is to inadvertently go into<i> non-case-ignorant-mode<\/i>. But today during my booking-keeping time, I &#8220;had to&#8221; create yet another nice and useful replacement rule for my bank statement. And again,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><i>non-case-ignorant-mode &#8211;<\/i><\/span><span>\u00a0bad, very bad!<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><span>I wasn&#8217;t lucky, when I tried to look this up in the emacs standard documentation &#8220;<i>The Emacs Editor<\/i>&#8220;, but looking it up in the O&#8217;Reilly book was a hit. There has always been a section titled &#8220;<i>are emacs searches case-sensitive?<\/i>&#8220;. I speaks about<span> case-fold-search<\/span> and <span>case-replace<\/span>. I understand that, and I &#8220;<i>customized<\/i>&#8221; the variables. Looking at these PDF files using <i>Snow Leopard<\/i>\u00a0and its <i>Preview <\/i>application is also a big plus, I want to tell you.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have proudly owned O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;Learning GNU Emacs&#8221; since November 1996. 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