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Tempting. For those who have never used emacs or vim, how long would it take to get up to speed?
by throwkeep 5y ago
Tempting. For those who have never used emacs or vim, how long would it take to get up to speed?
- smithza 5y agoIf you are seriously interested (which I highly recommend) just throw yourself into it. In the case of emacs, effort put in is directly correlated to efficiency gained. I was proficient in basic text/code editing in a few hours and incrementally tried to shoehorn most editing/scripting problems to be solved with emacs. There is an emacs wiki[0], the tutorial built into emacs[1], and a stack exchange network (mostly for questions related to emacs lisp which you will want to tinker in pretty soon after using the tool) [2]. Just a note, emacs could be a full desktop experience, supporting reading/writing email, web browsing, document browsing (pdfs, html, etc.), picture viewing, text editing, automation guru, etc etc etc. Some caution against some of these features but I use it mainly for text editing and automation support. It has a very robust keyboard-macro-recording tool, for example. [0] https://www.emacswiki.org/ https://www.emacswiki.org/ [1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsTutorial https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsTutorial [2] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/ https://emacs.stackexchange.com/ Additional reading [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf [4] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
- karatinversion 5y agoI’ve found the emacs manual to be superior to the emacs wiki pretty much always (three months into my emacs journey here), fwiw.