From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add tintin. Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:18:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r39z81zo.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <8760rbot2y.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <877fbdnne4.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87y43tm73e.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <877fbb1jm9.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bb9v7-0003Tj-2h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:19:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bb9v0-0007hd-3T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:18:56 -0400 Received: from mail-yb0-x241.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c09::241]:34527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bb9uy-0007hO-QK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:18:50 -0400 Received: by mail-yb0-x241.google.com with SMTP id g67so2064542ybi.1 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:18:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877fbb1jm9.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel > Hmmm, my way of learning emacs is to read the Emacs Tutorial but not to > read the Emacs Manual, because it goes into things too deep for newbies > IMO. Then, I try to code in emacs and eventually I get comfortable in > emacs key bindings. Only then I start to look into packages and elisp > programming. (emacs is actually what get me into learning scheme) > Alternatively, if you are used to vim, you could try Evil Mode, which > emulates vim key bindings. I completed the evil-tutor thing in spacemacs yesterday, and think I'll get used to it. The main problem I had when getting started with emacs, is that the bindings appear to be random? With spacemacs finding the relevant commands was easy, (space b for buffer and n for next). I think that's easy to remember... and it comes with a lot of packages pre-installed and with sane defaults. I think that the vim key bindings are more known, since everyone has had to modify a config file over ssh and use :wq and insert mode, and that's pretty much all you need to get started.