If you use Emacs for more than editing text, there are many daily occasions to use Emacs as a pager. Here’s my list: Read-only files (with view-mode) Scrolling through emails (notmuch) RSS feed entries (elfeed) Reading ebooks (nov.el) Web browsing (eww) Man pages (man or woman) Help buffers and Info documents Git logs (magit or vc) System logs, compilation and debug output This list was about half as long ten years ago, it keeps growing!| karthinks.com
One of the problems with Emacs, especially out of the box, is that its constituents don’t communicate with each other as comprehensively as they ought to. This is expected given the bazaar nature of its development: it’s an amalgamation of elisp libraries written by different contributors over decades, few of whom were aware of many of Emacs’ existing capabilities they could reuse or plug into. I covered a couple of examples of this deficiency in my series on Batteries included with Ema...| karthinks.com
Continuing from last time, here are a dozen more tricks Emacs has up its sleeve that it’s shy about telling you. We continue to chip away at Emacs' discoverability problem, one demo at a time. Same rules as before: No packages, stock Emacs only No steep learning curves. Learn each feature in under five minutes or bust. (Up from two minutes last time.) No gimmicks.| karthinks.com