Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?

292 points

6 years ago

With reference to the other post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875106), I’m once again fascinated by Emacs and the following it has. I know vi (learned it quite sometime ago) and though I’m not a power user, I can do a lot of things in vi without putting in much effort or searching online for solutions.

So I’m here to ask for resources — text based tutorials, video tutorials and what not — that would help someone grok Emacs (from a novice level) and get into the Emacs way of doing things (including elisp?).

I would also like recommendations on what (package/source) you consider as the best to install on macOS and on Linux.

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