Class 05: Getting Started with Emacs and Compiling C Programs

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This outline is also available in PDF.

Held: Friday, 3 September 2010

Summary: We begin to explore the wonder that is Emacs.

Related Pages:

EBoard.
Lab: Emacs and Beyond.
Reading: Raymond 1 ; Wikipedia on Emacs.

Notes:

Primary reading for Monday: K&R 2.
Secondary reading for Monday: Sections 5.1-5.4 of The GNU Coding Standards.
Assignment for Wednesday: Assignment 2: Basic C.

Overview:

The Linux Philosophy.
Emacs Basics.
Lab.

Eric S. Raymond on Unix/Linux

What did you learn from the Raymond article?

About Emacs

What did you learn from Wikipedia?
My take: Emacs is one of the great accomplishments of software design: An insanely extensible and customizable editor.
- It can edit plain text.
- It can do many other things.
- And you can make it work the way you want it to work (although that can take some effort).
All good Unix users know Emacs.

Lab!

Do the lab.
Warning! It's a bit long.

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