From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roodwriter@core.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Customization - newbie's question Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 06:03:52 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E87A603.8010702@networld.com> <5ld6k7875g.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: Roodwriter@core.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051787504 7959 80.91.224.249 (1 May 2003 11:11:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 13:11:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BByY-00024B-00 for ; Thu, 01 May 2003 13:11:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BBxJ-0003yv-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2003 07:10:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112619 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9116 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9116 David Combs wrote: > In article <5ld6k7875g.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>, > Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>>>>> "Asene" == Asene writes: >>> I'm a newbie to Emacs. I tried to read the Emacs manual but it looks so >>> complicated to me. So asking here is a better way for me, I think. > > Yes, a much better way to start out. > > Type in this: Control-H t (the letter "t"). > > That will get you into the interactive tutorial, written > by the master himself. > > Each thing he teaches, he has you do it yourself, > right then and there. > > After finishing that, THEN read the manual. > > If you can't afford the manual or even printing > it out, then type in Control-H i ("i", for "info"). > > Using what you learned from the tutorial, hunt down > for a "* Emacs", and when there, hit "m" followed > by a carriage-return (I believe). > > Good luck! > > David I found the book /Learning/ /GNU/ /Emacs/ second edition by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt and Eric Raymond quite helpful. It's an O'Reilly book available at bookstores and the web. The problem is that it's a bit out of date. It's written for version 19.30 and we're 21.xx now. Still, I found it much easier to understand than the help files and organized better--at least for me. Hope this helps. --Rod -- Author of "Linux for Non-Geeks--Clear-eyed Answers for Practical Consumers" and "Boring Stories from Uncle Rod." Both are available at http://www.rodwriterpublishing.com/index.html To reply by e-mail, take the extra "o" out of my e-mail address. It's to confuse spambots, of course.