This video is intended for people who have used other code editors or IDEs before and are curious to try out Emacs! The goal is to teach you everything you need to know to get started with Emacs and use it for basic editing tasks. Once you get comfortable with the basics, check out the other Emacs video series that I've created to learn a whole lot more!
Check out the show notes here: systemcrafters.net/emacs-essentials/absolute-begin…
Also, if you want to know a little more about what Emacs is capable of, check out my video "5 Reasons to Learn Emacs in 2021": youtu.be/bEfYm8sAaQg
Check out my other video series on Emacs!
- Emacs From Scratch: www.youtube.com/watch
- Emacs Tips: www.youtube.com/watch
- Emacs Desktop Environment: www.youtube.com/watch
- Emacs IDE: www.youtube.com/watch
- Emacs Mail: www.youtube.com/watch
- Learning Emacs Lisp: www.youtube.com/watch
We cover the following topics:
- 0:00 Intro
- 1:33 Installation
- 2:17 GNU/Linux
- 3:03 GUI or Terminal?
- 4:06 macOS
- 4:46 Windows
- 5:13 Basic Concepts
- 5:29 The User Interface (Menu Bar, Tool Bar)
- 9:11 Menu Bar in the Terminal
- 10:02 Where's the file browser?
- 11:14 Windows and Frames
- 15:12 Buffers
- 19:01 The *scratch* buffer
- 19:49 The *Messages* buffer
- 20:37 The *Warnings* buffer
- 21:08 The Mode Line
- 25:22 The Echo Area and Minibuffer
- 27:06 Commands
- 29:27 Dired
- 30:49 Calendar
- 31:12 eshell
- 31:57 Tetris?
- 32:40 Major Modes
- 36:20 Minor Modes
- 37:01 Minor mode: highlight current line
- 38:46 Basic Key Bindings
- 39:40 Understanding Emacs Key Bindings
- 44:53 The Key Prefixes C-x and C-c
- 47:25 Opening and Saving Files
- 50:00 Switching Buffers
- 52:41 Cutting and Copying Text
- 55:31 Pasting Text
- 56:15 CUA Mode (C-c, C-x, and C-v)
- 57:53 Undo and Redo
- 59:41 Cancelling Operations
- 1:01:04 Learning More Key Bindings
- 1:03:20 The Help System
- 1:04:28 Configuring Emacs
- 1:04:42 The Customization UI
- 1:05:53 The init.el File
- 1:07:40 What's next?
My Emacs configuration: github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org
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Marisa Giancarla
The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs
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Description
This video is intended for people who have used other code editors or IDEs before and are curious to try out Emacs! The goal is to teach you everything you need to know to get started with Emacs and use it for basic editing tasks. Once you get comfortable with the basics, check out the other...