From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: [OT] book advice Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 21:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381035340 3960 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2013 04:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:55:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Ken Goldman , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 06 06:55:43 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgNY-0001qm-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:55:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgNY-0003vU-6E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:55:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgNC-0003uT-67 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgN4-0005uH-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:55:18 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:51104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgN4-0005u5-E4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r964t9Bk007070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:55:09 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r964t8Qx027080 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:55:08 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt106.oracle.com (abhmt106.oracle.com [141.146.116.58]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r964t8Ta027070; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:55:08 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93861 Archived-At: > I'd start with the embedded tutorial. That should be enough for a > simple Unix editor. >=20 > 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