{"id":1804,"date":"2013-03-21T07:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2013-03-21T07:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T11:45:22","slug":"an-emacs-crash-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"An Emacs Crash Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Kotlarski has posted a very nice <a href=\"http:\/\/m00natic.github.com\/emacs\/emacs-wiki.html\">Emacs Guide<\/a> on github. He says he wrote it for his coworkers after he got tired of being asked to give introductions to Emacs. It&#8217;s the perfect guide for someone who wants to get a feeling for Emacs, its capabilities, and how it works.<\/p>\n<p>The guide is divided into 8 sections:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Practical essentials<\/li>\n<li>General tips and tricks<\/li>\n<li>Programming tips and tricks<\/li>\n<li>Documentation<\/li>\n<li>Random<\/li>\n<li>Emacs for black belts<\/li>\n<li>Where to go next?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re an experienced Emacs user, the guide is worth a read; you may learn something you didn&#8217;t know. For example, you can get information on \u201cinteresting\u201d files in a directory under version control with \u3010<kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>x<\/kbd> <kbd>v<\/kbd> <kbd>d<\/kbd>\u3011 <code>directory-name<\/code>. The guide also points out some useful packages such as <code>undo-tree<\/code> and <code>wgrep<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/m00natic\/m00natic.github.com\/blob\/master\/org\/emacs\/emacs-wiki.org\">Org mode source<\/a>. Definitely worth a read and handy to have around for those times when you have an opportunity to evangelize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s the perfect guide for someone who wants to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}