From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: don provan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie? Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:59:35 -0700 Message-ID: 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 1178730298 16898 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2007 17:04:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 17:04:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 09 19:04:56 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 1Hlpaw-0002av-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:04:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hlpi9-0002RR-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 13:12:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:58:12 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JwrBl/yiiw3E+AGGQopQ71ZjmLk= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.5.238.23 Original-X-Trace: sv3-PgxpK6CAzAHqkflqHSnmz3MgopUNrPD0vtud10qua8WDG0g04xpLCD96rPvRb0KEScuunZ1WOGhAqsQ!oE4agj4JKhYJGe4Gb5Q44XGqcqjxZq0JbvjKOvrgRtuJGxzMwzl1N/CZ95V/G9v/3RC5j4v8kYOn!mQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148219 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 May 2007 13:12:05 -0400 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:43838 Archived-At: SimpleCode writes: > I am a emacs newbie but I like it. I hope I'm not repeating something someone already said that I missed, but for a newbie learning to negotiate the emacs keyboard commands, the Emacs Reference card cannot be beat: http://refcards.com/docs/gildeas/gnu-emacs/emacs-refcard-a4.pdf Just print it out, fold it up, and keep it next to your keyboard. In addition to making it easy to look up and learn all the key strokes, it's a physical reminder of The One True Binding, thus discouraging you from rebinding kill-line to ^d because you think "delete line" makes more sense. (Of course, you are free to rebind all the keys if you want to deal with your own bindings, but most new emacs users that live with the standard bindings quickly find that the defaults make as much and typically more sense than any binding they would have come up with themselves.) I think a lot of the other posts were talking about elisp programming, which, of course, is also important, but I wanted to cover simple program operation for newbies that are still more worried about using emacs than in customizing it. -don provan