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Re: Taking care of your tools

by Anonymous Monk
on Mar 11, 2005 at 15:33 UTC ( [id://438679]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Taking care of your tools

Stay familiar with the tools you use most often (for me, my shell, my editor, Perl, C, LaTeX, Solaris). Even after more than a dozen years of intensive usage, I still reread the documentation of my editor every know and then (once every 1 to 2 years). Not to look something up, no, from top to bottom. Sometimes, I pick a Perl manual, and reread, top to bottom. Even if I know it already. I can advice that to everyone (and if you do, send a patch for every typo, grammar mistake, omission, wrong example, whatever, you find - you're much more likely to spot them then, then when you're browsing it for a particular piece of info). Other manuals (or books) I've reread multiple times, just for the sheer joy of rereading include the bash manual, K&R, and The UNIX Programming Environment.

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Re^2: Taking care of your tools
by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 12, 2005 at 00:21 UTC

    Seconded. 14-ish years later and there's still gobs of stuff in Emacs that I still don't know that it could do. Just the other day I found Skeleton mode. C-h i and just browsing can be fruitful.

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