Hi all,
Chris L. did a great job of actually answering the question asked.
Here I post a couple of links:
Although a discussion of the virtues of Emacs versus other editors
(such as vi) would be helpful, I feel bound to post a link so that we
do not repeat the errors of the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
To answer your other question:
For Polish, add the following two lines to your .emacs file (or
equivalent):
(set-language-environment 'Polish)
(set-input-method 'latin-2-prefix)
See this for more on using Emacs with different languages:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Language-Environments.html
Jake
To see a perspective on Emacs (and computing environments more
generally) from a Neal Stephenson (a novelist who neither uses R nor
typesets math see ) (search for Emacs on the page if you just want to
see that paragraph):
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/in_the_beginning_was_the_command_line/
On Sep 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Antonio P. Ramos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I also have a questions: why should we learn Emacs?
>
> Clearly, it takes much more time and effort to be learned than the
> other options (any good manual for a polish type user?) and it is not
> clear for me what are the advantages: What is so special about this
> editor for, say, a daily user of R and Latex? Many of us love it, but
> it is still not clear for me why...
>
> All the best,
>
> Antonio.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Paul Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> Stephen Haptonstahl wrote:
>>>
>>> Tinn-R is a free editor that works with R, LaTeX, and even Sweave
>>> (something WinEdt doesn't handle well.) It integrates well with R
>>> and
>>> MiKTeX. Definitely worth a look.
>>>
>>> http://www.sciviews.org/Tinn-R/
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Still wonder why anybody learns to use any editor except Emacs.
>> Available
>> for all platforms, will be maintained forever, tons of plugins,
>> including
>> ESS for statistics, auctex for LaTeX, and it also inherits the rich
>> tradition of its creator, R Stallman.
>>
>> PJ
>>
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