Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[tomas]

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On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 04:13:34PM +0530, Vaidheeswaran C wrote:
> On Friday 08 May 2015 04:06 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:

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> > You need to start using GNU Emacs for your day-to-day work/study. See
> > how people are using it for their needs, and then customize your
> > .emacs and configurations as you learn.

Seconded. Emacs is huge. Coming from vi (long time ago) I took the pain
of switching (because I was convinced that Emacs Is Right (TM). The first
stretch, until you get your day-to-day stuff covered takes a bit. After
that, my strategy was identifying pain points, one by one, and tackling
each one. If I like the solution, I try to memorize it.

The (built in) manual and function/variable documentation are pure gold,
get early into the habit of doing "C-h i emacs" for the manual (or just
C-h r to jump directly into the Emacs manual) (and searching in the
manual, f.ex. the topic search, `i').

Be sure to do C-h ? to get an overview of all help topics. Just ignore
the ones you don't understand at the beginning

I'm not the tutorial type, my eyes glaze over after lesson 1, but you
might give it a try.

Emacswiki is a good resource. Another one I appreciate highly, especially
when I'm in "exploration mode" is the emacs category of Sacha Chua's blog:
<http://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs/>. Very recommended. There are
quite a few other high-quality blogs out there.

This list. Well, you've found it.

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