From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie? Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 09:31:19 +0300 Message-ID: <87zm4lhzgo.fsf@moley.org> References: <1178245635.686969.214290@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178260209 4267 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 06:30:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 06:30:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 08:30:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjrIt-0008Vx-E2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 08:30:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjrPU-0003ST-J0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 02:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjrPI-0003SO-Ia for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 02:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjrPH-0003SC-D4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 02:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjrPH-0003S9-9y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 02:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjrIf-000402-82 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 02:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjrIb-0001bu-2E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 08:29:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 08:29:49 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 08:29:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xIoonXNmjJtZRSUMFtFuwHhyD7s= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43638 Archived-At: > I am a emacs newbie but I like it. Congratulations. You've stumbled on the single most universally useful program ever written! The learning curve can be steep at first (all those keystrokes!!!) but trust me you will never look back once you begin to make it work for you. Emacs' own Info manual is indispensible, and it is never far away once you master *Info* (type C-h i m emacs RET and you are there). The various help keystrokes (especially C-h m for describe-mode and C-h v for describe-variable) are also very useful. My advice would be to become very comfortable with *Info* mode and 'bookmarks' so you never need to forget where you read something again. C-x r m RET to create a bookmark, C-x r b RET to go to a bookmark, C-x r l to list your bookmarks Good luck, and don't give up. It seems like deep magic but it's actually so simple it hurts. Sebastian