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How to learn Emacs
- nic-ferrier 15y agoI read this yesterday, it's a really great tutorial. It should be added to the emacs wiki as a learning resource.
- drothlis 15y agoThanks. :-) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearningEmacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearningEmacs
- hsmyers 15y agoFor those bound to Windows, GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) provides a current version with an installer as part of the DL---actually the installer is the initial DL, the rest is done as part of the install. In so far as I can tell comparing Unix version(s) with the Windows version there doesn't appear to be any difference in ability or performance. The http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/big.html does a reasonable job of covering the water front for better information than mine.
- drothlis 15y agoThanks for the tip. Where did you get this installer from? I just installed emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ on a Windows VM, and it's a plain zipfile you extract to C:\Program Files (and optionally run addpm.exe for start menu shortcuts) and it just works -- except for things like grep, which require cygwin or equivalent. Did your installer also install the cygwin (or equivalent) tools?
- terryk88a 15y agodang! don't do this! don't teach anybody how to use emacs! it's my productivity secret weapon and I don't wanna share!
- terryk88a 15y agoOh all right. Great job.
- justncase80 15y agoEmacs is a great operating system. It just lacks a decent text editor.