Gotta Jam More Useless Stuff In There

Well, I've been reading for the past 5 hours or so (and practicing)... Learning all the different ways to move the cursor and all the advanced cursor motions in emacs. Ya, you read right... advanced cursor commands. I have to admit they are pretty slick, they are definitely quicker than the arrow keys and the mouse, but really the emacs manual stressed the importance of learning these commands. Some guy has a lot of love for that little blinking bar! It took me back 12 years to my days in the AutoCAD lab.

Maybe tomorrow I'll finally learn how to colorize my code (that's actually what I set out to learn today) But at least I'll go to bed tonight knowing that I know how to bounce forward in my text 8 lines and go 5 spaces in.

I think it would be a lot easier going through a tutorial that was written for a person used to higher level stuff. I mean seriously when I see sections like this:

If you are using a windowed display, such as X11 or MS-Windows, there
should be a tall rectangular area called a scroll bar at the
side of the Emacs window. You can scroll the text by clicking the
mouse in the scroll bar.

>> Try pressing the middle button at the top of the highlighted area
within the scroll bar. This should scroll the text to a position
determined by how high or low you click.

>> Try moving the mouse up and down, while holding the middle button
pressed down. You'll see that the text scrolls up and down as
you move the mouse.

Seriously... how to use a mouse! WTF

if you click on the slide bar and drag it up and down the text will scroll!

I may be being a little overly pessimistic tonight, but I've been at this most of today and now that I've dumped so many hours into it have realized that once I get over this threshold there is no going back to notepad.

This is GOD's punishment for me for using Emacs, Kenny and him are laughing at me while I study. :)