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Of all Emacs features and possible ways to use, what were some of the hardest things to learn or get used to? (sopuli.xyz)

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Personally mine was just getting around buffers; creating new ones, splitting windows, deleting the ones I don’t need and so on. In the beginning I used to have just a single file open at a time like nano

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, clearly the emacs concept of windows is older (or they'd be called panes or something)

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