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Seems great. Are there any similarly gentle intros to emacs?

• davidw 18y ago
  M-x help-with-tutorial
  • silentbicycle 18y ago
    Which is Emacs keyboard shorthand for, "press Alt-x, let go of Alt, then type help-with-tutorial and press Enter". If that doesn't work (depending on what Emacs thinks your Alt key is), you can also type Control-H, let go of Control, and then type t.
    • technoguyrob 18y ago
      .............. ........................ I thought David was kidding. Jesus.
      • silentbicycle 18y ago
        Not at all. That's the Emacs crash course: How do you move by charcters/words/lines/sentences/paragraphs/function definitions/..., how do you open/save files, what does 'C-x M-c butterfly' mean, how do you browse the main help system, etc. It probably takes about half an hour to go through. Emacs is largely self-documenting, but since it was written decades (and several OSs) ago, it's IMHO worth reading through the basics. For one thing, it tends to use different terminology than most people are familiar with.
  • babo 18y ago
    :help Just to mention the same for Vim. :-)
    • babo 18y ago
      F1 even works.
      • sc 18y ago
        % vimtutor An alternative.
  • d0mine 18y ago
    I'd say press F1 F1 and follow instructions on the screen.
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