What are some excellent Emacs utter beginner resources?

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I administrate a couple of servers and do automation with both python and ruby at times.

I've seen some awesome Youtube videos of users with multiple open windows, logged in background chats, and deep code completion, all done with emacs. I'm currently using vi and would like to learn emacs.

Altogether doing away with any and all forms of GUI (suggestions for text browsing in emacs welcome) would be perfect in my current environment, especially for decluttering and focus.

Content similar to http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo/tutorial.swf would be perfect.

Not really a tutorial, but I'd consider installing Emacs Starter Kit--I find it really useful. — alex, Jan 20 '11 at 11:54

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:40

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See the questions in stack overflow:

Other resources to check out when you get stuck:

FAQ: C-h C-f
info pages: C-h i
Emacs Wiki
M-x apropos-documentation (search Emacs variable/function documentation)

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answered Jan 20 '11 at 13:21

Trey Jackson

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score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 11:16

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There is emacs built-in tutorial, available by typing Ctrl+h, thent. It can be considered as the vimtutor equivalent.

answered Jan 20 '11 at 11:16

greg0ire

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Great. Will try this first. – Forkrul Assail Jan 21 '11 at 11:27
I really think that this is the best way to start learning Emacs from scratch--it makes no assumptions about your previous knowledge, so is perfect exactly for the utter beginner. – Tikhon Jelvis Dec 13 '11 at 02:26

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '11 at 11:49

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I started with Learning GNU Emacs

answered Jan 20 '11 at 11:49

hiena

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kasterma · Answer 4 · 2011-01-21T14:59:15.213

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My strategy was to go through the tutorial, and after that just google all the time. Now it seems time to go through the elisp manual; problems I have these days do seem to require knowing more about that.

(let me sneak in a recommendation for org-mode at http://orgmode.org)

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answered Jan 20 '11 at 23:10

kasterma

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Unable to determine IP address from host name org-mode.org. Is that correct? – Forkrul Assail Jan 21 '11 at 11:27
Sorry about that, should be orgmode.org. I'll correct the answer. – kasterma Jan 21 '11 at 14:58

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:40

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A really good video to watch is: http://peepcode.com/products/meet-emacs

Does an excellent job of covering all the basics, but it'll cost some money to get.

I asked a similar question on StackOverflow and rather then me copying everything over check out:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2393787/any-good-emacs-intro-videos

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answered Feb 05 '11 at 22:25

Thanks. Got myself the video. Also following the inline tutorials. – Forkrul Assail Feb 22 '11 at 06:54

What are some excellent Emacs utter beginner resources?

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