Re: Emacs and long file names

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

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Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:87y6f799pf.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org:

> Adam Beneschan writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> On May 24, 7:44 pm, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
>> wrote:
>>> Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> writes:
>>> > I hadn't come across electric-buffer-list before; I use
>>> > mouse-buffer-menu, bound (not by me) to C-down-mouse-1.
>>>
>>> Ah; invoke electric-buffer-list.
..
> I'm also an emacs bigot and I'm proud not to use the mouse at all from
> within emacs.  I run ratpoison as my "desktop environment".  I
> customized emacs not to display any menu bar or toolbar.  ...
> best of all worlds :)

I'm also an emacs bigot though I've been using MicroEMACS
instead since the days of DOS, Atari-ST and Amiga.  It was 
also ported to the "then" relevant versions of unix in the 
late 80's (I think), when I adopted it. I have since 
customized it and ported it to Linux and other modern 
*nix. I've also added a few of my own C bugs. ;-)  But it 
ports well and has a very small footprint, which I like.
It's always my first "install" after loading up a given 
Linux distribution.

Ppl have encouraged me to (re)-try Gnu-emacs, but the one
feature that never seemed to work right was the "repeat
last executed operation" operation, that I bind to ^C.  
When I tried it last, it mostly worked, but was still
sufficiently busted that I could not switch. It is 
probably time for me to try it again (I had reported
something that was queued to be fixed). I use ^C
to repeat the last macro execution, among other things.

The best version of emacs on the planet was Pr1me emacs, 
(sniff). I still have my Pr1me emacs manual somewhere 
at home ;-)

I also have my .emacsrc set to recognize gnat code and
to make ^X^Z-G go to the source line in error. Thanks to
gnat it even points at the correct statement offset to
the very token (or nearly). I'm sure your Gnu-emacs elisp 
code does the same thing.  That sure saves a lot of time
when fixing compile issues.

The tools "emacs" and "Ada" -- best of breed IMO. ;-)

Warren