Of all Emacs features and possible ways to use, what were some of the hardest things to learn or get used to?
cross post from reddit, OP: @pizzatorque@mastodon.social
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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You don't usually split buffers, maybe windows?
ah yes an oopsie on my end :p
isn't it Frames in Emacs context?
not that i use or need it often, but terminology is (obviously) not that easy
Frames are the outer-most container for windows. I may be wrong on this, but there is 1 frame per instance of emacs, or emacs-client
Now I'm curious whether the emacs concept of frames is older than the desktop environment concept of a window... And what exactly a new frame means in a tui environment. I make new frames all the time, but I'm usually in a GUI environment.
Emacs is from 1975 I think? So it's very possible 🙂
Frame (what the window manager calls Window)>Window>Buffer. These are probably concepts that come from a text based terminal age.
