Emacs wiki Problems
Xah Lee, 2008-06-10
Some personal experiences on tutorials and documentations related to
emacs.
A Html version with formatting and links is at:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_wiki_problem.html
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Emacs Tutorial Experiences
i started to use emacs in 1998. Was a full time user and beta tester
for BBEdit for several years before that.
The first tutorial i read is the bundled tutorial (C-h t, M-x help-
with-tutorial).
This tutorial is the way to get you started with emacs from the ground
up. It in written in 1980's mindset, gets you started to learn all the
emacs ways and terminologies. It is not a practicality oriented one
though.
Once you've read the bundled tutorial, you'll know about info (C-h i)
and how to use its navigation shortcuts, which you can read the whole
one-thousand pages of emacs manual. The emacs manual is a bit...
