Emacs Rocks

After a month or so, if you're still curious, try https://emacsrocks.com/ 17 small length video tutorials of great quality (as informative as fun)

If anyone's looking for short demos, the https://emacsrocks.com shorts are great. My all-time favorite is https://emacsrocks.com/e13.html (well worth watching until the end). edit: I also post the odd demo at https://xenodium.com

Emacs Rocks has some great demos, they are very well-structured https://emacsrocks.com/

>Magnar Sveen started doing this several years ago (emacsrock.com) Great comment! But you were missing an s in this FQDN. Here's a working link: http://emacsrocks.com/

r/emacs is a wonderful community. Also, many young people are picking it up and starting youtube channels, demonstrating beautifully how to use it. Magnar Sveen has done many excellent videos (http://emacsrocks.com/). Also, Protesilaos Stavrou on Youtube: Wonderful videos, albeit a little academic for some (but I like it a lot). Also, System Crafters on youtube: From basic to sophisticated videos. Emacs (with its beautiful language `Lisp`) is a tool that will be with you for the rest of your life. I have seen many many tools come and go, but Emacs (just like Lisp) has the potential to be around in many decades. So it's well worth investing time in it.

I would say its a big, fat, maybe. If you are hoping for some panacea of developer efficiency, you will probably be disappointed. At best, they are just another way to do most of the same things you can already do, with vscode. For some tasks, they will undoubtedly be more efficient or easier. For others, they will make your life more difficult. If they interest you, sure give them a shot. Maybe check out some screencasts, and see if you like what they do/how they work: - http://vimcasts.org/ - http://emacsrocks.com/

I have to share it here: http://emacsrocks.com/ This is an absolutely insane series of tutorials that will explode your mind and make you feel godlike. If you want to learn why people love emacs so much, watch this.

Anyone following this thread might be interested in watching a few episodes of Emacs Rocks! It's pretty entertaining, and humbling about my own use of any text editor. http://emacsrocks.com/

My personal favourite is to clone this .emacs.d to get the emacs hacks as featured on the http://emacsrocks.com screencasts: cd git clone https://github.com/magnars/.emacs.d.git

http://emacsmovies.org/blog/2012/08/05/customisation_part_1/ Here's part one. I'm really glad there is a growing number of screencasts and movies about Emacs. You can find many more here: http://emacsrocks.com/ Also, there are more and more videos of Vim too. Emacs is my favorite text editor, followed by Vim. All this is great news :)

Sorry if I sounded frustrated. Don't listen to the haters. EmacsLisp is a real Lisp. You can use it to do solve real problems. It gets better all the time as people add stuff that has worked for years to the package archives (see elsewhere in this elnode thread where someone adds a redis client). What I would say is you need to reach out more, come to #emacs and ask lisp questions. Play with Emacs (it's SO easy) and check out all the videos that people have been doing recently (http://emacsrocks.com/ and the one from me today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7DPvEi7Jg). Elnode is a good way to get into Lisp because it's easy and it's in Emacs which is just a great Lisp environment.

http://emacsrocks.com is a great introduction.

Out of box / vanilla Emacs is pretty confusing doesn't include many popular packages - that is why some pre-made configs are very popular. On the other hand they might overwhelm you with features and very opinionated decisions. If you want something close to what most users probably have setup and yet still close to vanilla you can give Emacs Prelude a try: https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/ I started with it, tried out the package selection, but then started a smaller config from scratch with what I liked from it. Also good links: https://www.masteringemacs.org/reading-guide http://emacsrocks.com I don't believe one should restrict oneself to a single editor, but rather follow a path of least resistance - Emacs is actually the path of least resistance when you want to have a custom editing experience. Overall I use four editors Emacs, vi, notepad++ and VS Code. Emacs when doing Clojure or any other code so I can have something that is very convenient for me, vi and notepad++ on machines where I don't want to setup a config or where I do only simple text editing and VS Code where I would ocasionally need to install a plug-in, but I don't need to use it often.

I very much second this comment. Learning Emacs is a very interactive process (much as Emacs itself). It's best to introduce new extensions one by one as you need them, and spending some time using them. I consider myself a noob Emacs user (having been using it exclusively for the last 4+ years), and here's a trick I use if I feel overwhelmed/annoyed by some extension: I decide to spend 30-60 minutes (to the clock; personally I measure it in pomodoros) practicing the mode itself. Such focused learning gives wonderful results. For instance, I spent 30 minutes on learning multiple-cursors.el and now I can't imagine living without it. Or I was always confused by Paredit, but it took about one hour of practicing it to become proficient in it. Again, I now can't imagine working in Lisp without Paredit. Discovering interesting modes can be a task in itself; I suggest browsing through at least Emacs Rocks short videos[0], they introduce many a handy utility. [0] - http://emacsrocks.com/

The Emacs tutorial is a great place to start. Using Emacs is a bit of a paradigm shift in text editing, so you should expect a bit more work up front for great results later on. Going through the tutorial and learning the basic vocabulary and commands takes care of most of that up-front cost and should not take long. I think it took me less than two weeks of fairly casual use. Part of the beauty is that most of the things in the blog are not limited to Python. All the general text-editing stuff trivially transfers to other languages you may want to learn. And Emacs supports any language you do want to learn to one extent or the other. For some languages, Emacs is even the only option! So you should consider going through at least the beginning of all this even if you're not interested in Python per se. Also, check out some of the Emacs Rocks![1] videos. I keep on recommending them because they are awesome. They really show off why Emacs is truly magical. [1]: http://emacsrocks.com/

not exactly what you seek, but i like the emacs rocks clips: https://emacsrocks.com/

Check out this video for a quick demo: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html If you know a Lisp I recommend just giving paredit a spin for a few minutes, it's an interesting experience.

http://emacsrocks.com/ is a series of videos demonstrating various emacs modes and extensions. The multiple cursors episode is really cool: http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html

https://emacsforosx.com/ https://prelude.emacsredux.com/en/latest/ http://emacsrocks.com/ https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news/

http://emacsrocks.com/ https://emacs.sexy/ https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs

It's not writing real code (except for some examples), but this guy's got some chops: http://emacsrocks.com/

Looks cool :-). If there is any Emacs hackers looking for a way to make and document api calls, I recommend Restclient-mode[0]. Emacs Rocks! Episode on Restclient-mode[1]. [0] https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el [1] http://emacsrocks.com/e15.html

Have you seen Magnar Sveen's videos? He has a series called Emacs Rocks of short (most are <5 minutes, I think) videos each showcasing one related set of commands, a series called Extending Emacs where he writes a new minor mode for Emacs and a series called Parens of the Dead where he write a webgame in ClojureScript (that last one doesn't star Emacs, but Emacs definitely plays a role). You can find all of them at http://emacsrocks.com/

This reminds me more of Paredit, in that it handles s-expression aware source transformations, and not just indentation: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html I would deeply love to see this kind of inference engine ported to emacs as an alternative to Paredit's chords

Sounds like Prune lives in the same conceptual space as ParEdit for Emacs. I have heard that ParEdit is a not a toy. I have heard that, if you work in a lisp-type language, it's worth your time. Screen cast: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html More info: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit

Unless I miss my guess, this the same guy who makes Emacs Rocks. http://emacsrocks.com/

The great think about VIM is that it lets you do the same about of work with less effort. Over your lifetime, you might type half as many keystrokes to do the same amount of work. Look at VimGolf and the following video to see what I mean. http://www.vimgolf.com https://vimeo.com/53144573 - Precision editing at the speed of thought All editors should place an emphasis on minimal typing. Emacs has a few cool precision features too: http://emacsrocks.com/e10.html - AceJump

This is great, but I recently switched to restclient-mode and I'm not going back. http://emacsrocks.com/e15.html

Or take a look at the videos at Emacs Rocks.[1] [1] - http://emacsrocks.com/

I'm vim guy and I started to watch http://emacsrocks.com/ There are another similar sites?