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i wanna try emacs (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by jemadux@alien.top to c/emacs

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Hello there .
I am using as my OS devuan gnu+linux .
The point is I like philosophy of Unix using like tmux + nvim + mutt .
and I love the vi keybings so much ..

Sometimes I am thinking to switch to gnu emacs .. but I feel that I will find some difficulties
and I am afraid .

Is there a easy way to use emacs ?
can someone help or give me some YT videos to watch to have a good idea about emacs ?

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[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Emacs doesn't follow the UNIX philosophy. It didn't originate on UNIX - it was born in a mainframe environment. Instead of lots of independent specialized utilities it's a Lisp engine with a text editor as its default program.

That said, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's not like vi will stop working. Just install it and run the tutorial, play around with customize, learn how to make an init file and install which-key, read some blogs (Mastering Emacs is a good one), browse the info pages, and use it.