emacs

Newbies Start Here

emacs - command-line
To start emacs in the unix/linux shell, type:

emacs

A great way to explore emacs is via the built in tutorial. In emacs, type:

C-h t

Note that you can quit emacs at any time by typing:

C-x C-c

After you are done with the tutorial you may want to explore the other resources on this page or the web to increase you emacs skills.

Make Yourself At Home

The thing that first turned folks into emacs addicts was the ability to create a consistent working environment on whatever platform they were working on. When you've been in the field for twenty years, the joy that comes from being able to say, "yeah, right, tell you what, you go right ahead and use your shiny new gui, I can work seamlessly with you via my existing emacs config, just let me install my .emacs file in my account" is hard to describe. Better yet, if their shiny new gui is based on good ideas and well written code (hey! some of them are! I hear you laughing back in the cheap seats!), with ridiculously little work, emacs can absorb appropriate features of their system. The blob, that's emacs...

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryDotEmacs has an excellent set of resources to get even the most newbie of emacs users up and running with their own .emacs file.

Emacs Command Reference List

Help understanding the Emacs Display

Emacs Links

Tutorials:
You should first use the built-in tutorial in emacs. These other tutorials provide useful additional information:

http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html

wikipedia page on emacs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

Advanced Emacs:
Emacs Nifty Tricks http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsNiftyTricks

Emacs Books

Learning GNU Emacs by Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, and Eric Raymond; O'Reilly Books

-- RobertSajan - 26 Sep 2008