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How to learn Emacs? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Aiclys@alien.top to c/emacs
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I am a newbie to emacs and Linux in general (started my linux journey 2 months ago) and want to learn emacs. Does anyone have good ressources to learn emacs as a beginner? Also should I use a distro like doom Emacs or should I do it from scratch

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[–] Nurahk@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

emacs is a hard to learn because you need context to understand anything from a tutorial, which isn't intuitive unless you use emacs, but to start using emacs you won't get anywhere without some kind of guidance, which usually comes in the form of a tutorial.

it's a 'the chicken or the egg' sort of problem. my recommendation is doing both. start using emacs exclusively as your full-time text editor unless you absolutely need to use something else to meet a deadline, and read through a tutorial or manual in your spare time. it's hard at first, there isn't really any way around it, but after a couple weeks of powering through it it gets easier. having the cheatsheet open on the side helps.