Mastodawn

Yes, #Emacs. You can render SVG. Very clever. But I actually want to *edit the text* of the file (you know, in a text editor. Like... oh, $DEITY, never mind).

Yes, Emacs, you almost certainly do have some weird key combination to switch back to ACTUALLY BEING A TEXT EDITOR, but I don't know it, and, being Emacs, you're too damned arrogant to make it discoverable.

Typing `<esc>-x svg` and hitting tab produces nothing.

Why do I still waste disk space on this piece of crap?

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Neil

Apr 24

@simon_brooke Is it not `C-x b` to switch buffers perhaps?

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Simon Brooke Apr 24

@nshephard No. Doesn't seem to be a text buffer.

Weirdly, I tried @draxil 's suggestion of typing C-c C-c, intending to then type describe mode per that suggestion, and *that* is the key binding to switch modes.

Emacs is such a chamber of user interface horrors. Nothing is consistent.

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draxil

@simon_brooke @nshephard In this case, me being unclear not emacs :)

M-x describe-mode is how I would find this
C-c C-c is the key binding for the flip between display and code.