notes form the emacs intro

[Mike Rogers]

Bruce,

thanks for your emacs intro last night - its inspired me to try and work out what stopped me using emacs, and to fix it. I took terrible notes - could you mail round that list of useful places and notes you worked from please.

Thanks

Mike

[Menno]

On Nov 9, 12:20 pm, Mike Rogers <mike.rog...@roundabout.org> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> thanks for your emacs intro last night - its inspired me to try and work out what stopped me using emacs, and to fix it.  I took terrible notes - could you mail round that list of useful places and notes you worked from please.

I'm not Bruce but here's a few useful links. Most were mentioned on
Monday.

The Emacs wiki is incredibly useful:
http://www.emacswiki.org/

Emacs starter kit is a way place to start:
http://eschulte.github.com/emacs-starter-kit/

Emacs for Macs:
http://aquamacs.org/

Emacs for patched to play more nicely with Windows (fairly close to
the bleeding edge):
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html

The awesomeness that is org-mode:
http://orgmode.org/

Superior git integration (Magit):
http://philjackson.github.com/magit/

Nic's Github page where elnode and more lives:
https://github.com/nicferrier



HTH,
Menno

[Bruce Durling]

Mike,

I think Menno hit the highlights, but here is what I have anyway.
Thanks everyone for coming. I had a great time.

cheers,
Bruce

* Keys

** What?
C- (control)
M- (meta, usually alt)

** Undoing
C-_
C-/
C-x u

C-g keyboard quit

** Moving
C-n
C-p
C-f
C-b

** Deleting
C-d
M-d
C-k

* Modes

[[http://slashdot.org][slashdot]]

Learn only what you need to start with plus a few things that go with
everything.

Leave the menus on to start as they'll give you some clues about what
you can do, but C-h m will let you know what is available in the
mode.

** Dired

C-x d

** Magit

C-x g magit mode

In magit mode:

s to stage
c to commit

When you commit it creates a buffer for you to create your change log
message. When you are finished just do C-c C-c

* Resources

** elpa

http://tromey.com/elpa/

M-x package-list-packages

** Emacswiki

http://emacswiki.org/

** Emacs Starter Kit

https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

** Emacs 23

Why? All the cool new stuff works with emacs 23 and doesn't with
22, 21, 20 and 19.