Learning Emacs

Emacs is a powerful text editor with many features. As with Vim, there are both command-line and graphical versions of the editor, and we will be focusing on the graphical version.

The simplest way to start learning Emacs is by running its built-in tutorial. Once logged on to eustis, you can run the tutorial by running emacs, and then pressing Ctrl-h followed by t:

emacs
# Press ctrl-h, then t

In addition to following the tutorial, I also recommend watching the Emacs From Scratch tutorial series by the Systems Crafters channel on Youtube. Note that simply watching a video series cannot replace actual practice though, so you should be sure to regularly practice actually writing code using Emacs, at least for a few minutes a day.