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Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?
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Tyler Smith |
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Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie? |
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04 May 2007 18:38:27 GMT |
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On 2007-05-04, Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know where in the world you are, or if you already have a
> book, but I could send you my old "Learning GNU Emacs (2nd Edition)",
> published by O'Reily, if you like?
>
Take him up on that offer! That's a great book. I learned Emacs (or at
least, started to learn) using three important resources:
1 - the online tutorial. It's a bit imposing for a rank beginner, but
it introduces all the basics in about an hour
2- the oreilly book. More thorough discussions of the most common
tools, a good follow-on from the tutorial.
3- the official docs. I bought hardcopies of the GNU Emacs manual and
learning emacs lisp. A little too comprehensive and terse at first, but
once you've worked through some of the o'reilly book and used Emacs a
bit, they are chock-full of useful details. They are available free as
part of Emacs too.
The most important thing is not to worry about learning everything at
once. I started off with the basics, just kill (C-k), yank (C-y), and
save-file (C-x C-s). Whenever I find myself doing anything over and
over again, I look up the function to automate it. That way it's easy
to remember stuff, as you're always learning something that's
immediately and repeatedly useful.
Cheers,
Tyler
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, (continued)
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, Christian Herenz, 2007/05/04
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
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- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, SimpleCode, 2007/05/04
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, William Case, 2007/05/04
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, William Case, 2007/05/04
- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
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- Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, SimpleCode, 2007/05/05
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Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, don provan, 2007/05/09