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Emacs From Scratch (www.youtube.com)

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I've always been curious about Emacs, but haven't been able to learn it.

This playlist looks promising, but ufff each video is like 1 hour and most of the video is just random chatting because it's a live stream...

Does anyone know any better video series? Something structured and to the point?

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IMO that's not realistic for beginners.

I don't think a beginner that's just starting to learn a tool is likely to make significant modifications any time soon. I've been using doom for like 10 years and so far I've only needed to make small changes.

And when they try to change anything, they'll search "how to set shortcut in doom Emacs" and immediately get the correct answer. If they search for "how to set shortcut in Emacs" they'll get 50 different methods using 10 different package managers.

And besides that. Learning how to make small modifications to Doom is incomparably easier than building a whole config from scratch. I quit Emacs the first time exactly because of that massive hurdle.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I’ve been using doom for like 10 years and so far I’ve only needed to make small changes.

I used emacs for at least as long before I started REALLY using emacs. And you do that with elisp.