cross post from reddit, OP: @pizzatorque@mastodon.social

Personally mine was just getting around buffers; creating new ones, splitting windows, deleting the ones I don’t need and so on. In the beginning I used to have just a single file open at a time like nano

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    2 days ago

    Where the hell is the “meta” key and why does every command tutorial online talk about it.

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      Remnant of the type of keyboard that Emacs was developed on. Also the same place that the Super, Hyper, and Compose keys originate from

      You can map it through your X server/Wayland compositor, but if not Emacs recognizes Alt and Esc as valid meta keys