Re: Emacs Tutorial

[raphael.berbain@free.fr (Raphaël Berbain)]

Aryan Ameri wrote:

> I'm looking for a tutorial for Emacs, to learn things from basic text 
> editing commands, up to how to use Emacs as a C IDE. I read the 
> tutorial which came with Emacs, but I want something a little more 
> comprehensive. At the same time, GNU's Emacs Manual seems to be very 
> lengthy and complicated for a newbie. I also know that google is my 
> friend, but this time, it didn't give find what I was looking for (or 
> maybe I should buy this 'google hacks' book ;-)
>
> Any URL or ebook would be greatly appreciated.

Well, Google 'emacs tutorial' gave me among others:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html
http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=359

which I haven't read in-depth, but look promising.

In plain old dead-tree book format, 'Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Edition'
(O'Reilly) is quite good.  It is a little bit outdated, but most of
the book still applies or at least gives good starting points.

However, the best resource to get information about Emacs is usenet:
comp.emacs (all emacsen flavors) and gnu.emacs.help (GNU Emacs
specific) are responsive and helpful groups.

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