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Would this be appropriate for emacs wannabe users like me? I'd love to shave off some years of the learning curve.
by gtrak 15y ago
Would this be appropriate for emacs wannabe users like me? I'd love to shave off some years of the learning curve.
- dotemacs 15y agoHi @gtrak, why not :) Just make a proposal on the site, see what people say. The idea is for the conference to be shaped by the people, everybody has a say.
- drothlis 15y agoI recently put this guide together: http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html Its focus is on self-driven discovery by leveraging the Emacs built-in help and source code. Feedback welcome.
- agumonkey 15y agoVery very nice tutorial. Careful when you say elisp `if` is a function, it's a `special form` aka different evaluation semantics.
- drothlis 15y agoThanks! After "pretend that if is a function" I do immediately proceed to explain evaluation semantics: "what does it mean by 'if is a special form'? It turns out that if isn’t a regular function." Of course, I am open to suggestions for better wording etc. That's assuming you were talking about the "cc-mode customization" chapter. If I've called "if" a function anywhere else please let me know! And keep the feedback coming. :-)
- agumonkey 15y agoMy bad I stopped reading too soon. So maybe just using a different verb than 'is' would be enough to avoid confusion. (and yes I was on the cc-mode customization page)
- nic-ferrier 15y agoI think that should be the aim for any tool conference, to help new users get a leg up and to help existing users move it forwards. Same for Emacs. The great thing about Emacs is that it's so big and versatile everyone can learn something new all the time.