I am a newbie to emacs and Linux in general (started my linux journey 2 months ago) and want to learn emacs. Does anyone have good ressources to learn emacs as a beginner? Also should I use a distro like doom Emacs or should I do it from scratch
Do the internal tutorial. Just click on the link of the splash page
patience
people who used emacs for 20 years still learn some stuff :)
join irc, or mastodon or any place to chat with people, it helps getting some things faster
watch emacsrocks, videos from a few years ago but excellent ratio between short demo and long term insight :)
EmacsConf 2023 just wrapped up, but you can watch the prerecorded talks here: https://emacsconf.org/2023/
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I’m not really agreeing with much of what is here, and I say that as someone that recently learnt to use (and abuse) Emacs recently.
For starters, vanilla Emacs is just too raw to be useful (especially for coding), but Doom and Spacemacs I found to be too opinionated and basically felt like too much of a deviation from vanilla and like I had bought an off the shelf IDE.
Eventually I found Prelude, and that seemed to be a happy medium of being quite vanilla but still being ready to use for coding.
The major hurdle at the start was keybindings - but I had trained myself a bit by using the Emacs bindings in VS Code first.
YouTube has a Lot of great emacs content!
Use menus. The key bindings is the Way, but also noh at all logicql in the beginning.
C-x C-c is life saver combo in the beginning.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap#LearningEmacs
That is, just go to Emacs Wiki. The very first heading after How to use this site is Learning About Emacs.
There you’ll find lots of suggestions from Emacs users, new and veteran (including probably all or most suggestions you’ll find here). Anyone can add their suggestions there (like here, but all in a single place).
The best way to learn it is to use it. Start with vanilla emacs and a project, and commit to using it. You’ll learn more by needing to figure out how to mark, copy, and paste than just reading about it.
I’m taking classes from Prot. He’s very clear, patient and very expert on the matter: you might find this as a possibility source to be considered.
I found this guide helpful.
Read the built in documentation.
Start with vanilla Emacs. Slowly but surely you’ll grow your config to the point of … throw it away. And start again. Same story a few times and in the end, there you have it.
Learn how to use the built-in help functions.