From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie? Date: 04 May 2007 18:38:27 GMT Organization: Sedgeboy Inc. Message-ID: References: <1178245635.686969.214290@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1178261678.484510.4200@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178307252 10637 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 19:34:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 19:34:12 +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 21:34:11 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 1Hk3Xe-0003TS-AH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 21:34:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk3eJ-0000E0-3d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 15:41:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!news.aliant.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148086 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:43691 Archived-At: On 2007-05-04, Sebastian Tennant 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