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So how to learn this? I used Emacs for a couple of years long time ago, but while the experience was ok, it didn't last. Is there a book/or blog about the magic

• bradrn 5y ago
  There isn’t one in particular I can recommend (or remember). Just look up how to install packages, look at other people’s configs, explore what packages are available, and so on. That’s basically what I did.
  • andi999 5y ago
    Where do I get other ppls configs? Maybe my problem is I do not know any Emacs power users.
    • ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
      Look around at GitHub, for example. There is, for example, mine: https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Emacs https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Emacs
    • alex_smart 5y ago
      Emacs Prelude [1] is an excellent starting point for creating your own emacs experience, without being too heavy-weight or opinionated (as in does not deviate too much from the emacs way of doing things). If you are a fan of vim style modal editing, Spacemacs [2] and Doom [3] are two popular emacs "distributions". [1] https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude [2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs [3] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
• BeetleB 5y ago
  The Emacs From Scratch series on Youtube is actually quite good. He does have all his config in a Github repository if you need to copy/paste. This is the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zOY-vgkyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zOY-vgkyw