I am a newbie to emacs and Linux in general (started my linux journey 2 months ago) and want to learn emacs. Does anyone have good ressources to learn emacs as a beginner? Also should I use a distro like doom Emacs or should I do it from scratch

  • Kautsu-Gamer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Use menus. The key bindings is the Way, but also noh at all logicql in the beginning.

    C-x C-c is life saver combo in the beginning.

  • Wumpitz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Welcome!

    Try this one

    https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

    After I got more familiar with Emacs I spent some time to walk through each chapter of the Emacs manual. Even if you think you know how to search and replace within Emacs, after reading the chapter about it you know even more.

    And what is most often forgotten: Use the menu bar. You can find most of the basic commands and their shortcuts there.

  • diegostamigni@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Start with vanilla Emacs. Slowly but surely you’ll grow your config to the point of … throw it away. And start again. Same story a few times and in the end, there you have it.

  • agumonkey@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    patience

    people who used emacs for 20 years still learn some stuff :)

    join irc, or mastodon or any place to chat with people, it helps getting some things faster

    watch emacsrocks, videos from a few years ago but excellent ratio between short demo and long term insight :)

  • Nurahk@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    emacs is a hard to learn because you need context to understand anything from a tutorial, which isn’t intuitive unless you use emacs, but to start using emacs you won’t get anywhere without some kind of guidance, which usually comes in the form of a tutorial.

    it’s a ‘the chicken or the egg’ sort of problem. my recommendation is doing both. start using emacs exclusively as your full-time text editor unless you absolutely need to use something else to meet a deadline, and read through a tutorial or manual in your spare time. it’s hard at first, there isn’t really any way around it, but after a couple weeks of powering through it it gets easier. having the cheatsheet open on the side helps.

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    10 months ago

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