[Ilugc] next months meet (learning emacs)
- From: skarra@xxxxxxxxx (Sriram Karra)
- Date: Mon Oct 29 04:01:27 2007
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
I have been trying that for the last 12 years - never got anywhere,
which is why I made to request
Emacs has taken big strides in user friendliness over the past 12
years. I'd be very surprised if you have made serious attempts to
learn Emacs in the past dozen years and not made any kind of headway.
I can tell you how I went about learning to use Emacs. If it works for you...
1. I learned to the do the basic stuff using menus
2. I learned to use the help system. C-h v, C-h f and M-x apropos ->
these three commands are worth their weight.... hm, in well written
lisp code
3. I was given a basic .emacs by my sysadmin. Digging into it and
messing with it started me on a joyful journey of programming and
tinkering... You should do the same. Start with the site emacs file
that comes with most distros these days
4. I read the Emacs tutorial
5. I checked out Eric Raymond and Debra Cameron's book from a library
and read through most of it:
http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Emacs-Third-Debra-Cameron/dp/0596006489.
I read the second edition, and it was very good. For a beginner
learning to use a new editor, this book works much better than the
Emacs Manual. I would expect the 3rd edition to be similarly
gratifying
6. Get more sophisticated in your tinkering - start learning features
of Lisp. Start looking up the Elisp Manual
7. More tinkering... reading the emacs sources.... more tinkering..
Repeate 6 and 7 till you stop programming. :-)
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