Andrey Kotlarski has posted a very nice Emacs Guide on github. He says he wrote it for his coworkers after he got tired of being asked to give introductions to Emacs. It’s the perfect guide for someone who wants to get a feeling for Emacs, its capabilities, and how it works.
The guide is divided into 8 sections:
- Introduction
- Practical essentials
- General tips and tricks
- Programming tips and tricks
- Documentation
- Random
- Emacs for black belts
- Where to go next?
Even if you’re an experienced Emacs user, the guide is worth a read; you may learn something you didn’t know. For example, you can get information on “interesting” files in a directory under version control with 【Ctrl+x v d】 directory-name. The guide also points out some useful packages such as undo-tree and wgrep.
Additionally, the guide covers Org mode. It is, itself, written in Org mode and exported to HTML. The finished product is a nice illustration of how good an exported Org document can look. You can see how it was formatted by looking at its Org mode source. Definitely worth a read and handy to have around for those times when you have an opportunity to evangelize.