From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [OT] book advice
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:55:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e61bfc34-b6fa-4519-a58a-acb1e166fe19@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l2qprr$t3n$1@ger.gmane.org>
> I'd start with the embedded tutorial. That should be enough for a
> simple Unix editor.
>
> For software, I'd start by browsing the menus to get an idea of what
> emacs can do, then slowly convert to the key chords.
+1 to starting with menus and then branching out to keyboard key
sequences. Menus can help you explore Emacs features, and the menu
items also indicate the corresponding keys.
And LaCarte can help you explore the menus (using the keyboard),
especially when used with Icicles (substring matching etc.).
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaCarte
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-06 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-16 19:43 [OT] book advice Luca Ferrari
2013-09-16 19:48 ` Rasmus
2013-09-17 5:47 ` MBR
2013-09-17 5:50 ` MBR
2013-09-17 15:38 ` Luca Ferrari
2013-10-06 4:44 ` Ken Goldman
2013-10-06 4:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=e61bfc34-b6fa-4519-a58a-acb1e166fe19@default \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=kgoldman@us.ibm.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.