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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by submeta on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:29AM (#25219013)
r/emacs is a wonderful community. Also, many young people are picking it up and starting youtube channels, demonstrating beautifully how to use it. Magnar Sveen has done many excellent videos (http://emacsrocks.com/). Also, Protesilaos Stavrou on Youtube: Wonderful videos, albeit a little academic for some (but I like it a lot). Also, System Crafters on youtube: From basic to sophisticated videos.

Emacs (with its beautiful language `Lisp`) is a tool that will be with you for the rest of your life. I have seen many many tools come and go, but Emacs (just like Lisp) has the potential to be around in many decades. So it's well worth investing time in it.

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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by dec0dedab0de on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:45AM (#25219109)
Ive been trying, it's just that it seems like there are hundreds of things that can take 10 minutes or 10 weeks to research and learn, if you can even find out about them.

I just wish I had people in my daily life who could give me answers like "oh that's easy just do this" or "yeah this thing rules but buckle up it's gonna take some time to get down".

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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by bloopernova on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:48AM (#25219129)
message me on reddit, vale_fallacia. I'll be that person for you :)
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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by NhanH on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:01AM (#25220065)
Not the GP, but I will take up that offer if you don't mind! :)
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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by bloopernova on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:14PM (#25222792)
Absolutely! I hope I am able to help you out.
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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by crankyoldcrank on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:25AM (#25220766)
#emacs on Freenode is full of those people, including the author of the talk in the article. Friendly fellow. It's really one of the best IRC channels left.
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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by stephen_cagle on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:33AM (#25221369)
Wow, that Protesilaos Stavrou guy has just so many interesting things on his web site. Gets me excited to just read about all the different cool projects and technologies.
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Re:EmacsConf 2020: State of Retro Gaming in Emacs by submeta on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:49AM (#25221529)
He seems to be a thinker and philosopher who uses Emacs extensively to write and organize his thougts, and he is willing to share his learnings in excellently made videos. Btw: He seems to be an excellent Lisp hacker as well.
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