Re:Ask YC: Learning an Editor
by visitor4rmindia on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:42PM
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Have you tried reading the EMacs tutorial (C-h t)? That's how I started. And as far as I remember, it was pretty good at getting me up to speed. I also found it useful to write out my own cheat sheet as I went along.
After that I kinda got lost until I discovered "The Info Directory" (C-h i). I just went through each item step by step and read most of it. Kinda painful but it gave me a really good feel for the entire system.
IMHO, though, there's not much point in switching from Vi to EMacs unless you do ELisp. Vi is a beautiful environment to work in but, with EMacs, you can make your environment behave practically in any way you want.
After that I kinda got lost until I discovered "The Info Directory" (C-h i). I just went through each item step by step and read most of it. Kinda painful but it gave me a really good feel for the entire system.
IMHO, though, there's not much point in switching from Vi to EMacs unless you do ELisp. Vi is a beautiful environment to work in but, with EMacs, you can make your environment behave practically in any way you want.