Thursday, December 6, 2007

Emacs Tip #1: where to start

This week's tip is dedicated to all the Emacs newbies. Here are a couple of places you new Emacs users might want to visit to get a taste of what is available.


C-h t
runs the tutorial

C-h i
loads up the *info* pages - hyperlinked documentation

C-h N
emacs news (what's new in this version)

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki
the wiki pages

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help
gnu emacs help newsgroup

http://trey-jackson.blogspot.com
this blog (indispensable)

1 comment:

SETH said...

I don't know if this is something on your end or Google reader's end but when this article was displayed in Google Reader, the lines got concatenated together, so the tips showed up as "C-h truns the tutorial" and "C-h iloads up the *info* pages."

Gave me a WTF moment to say the least.