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Emacs From Scratch (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by paequ2@lemmy.today to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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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 month ago (4 children)

Don't start from scratch, you'll give up long before you get a half decent config. Instead use a "distro" like Doom Emacs or Spacemacs.

If you really want to, get a copy of Mastering Emacs. Afaik it's the best resource around.

[–] highduc@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A distro adds extra layers of complexity. If you want to change something you need to know not only how emacs vanilla works, but also specifically how to adapt for your distro.

I found doom fast and pretty powerful out of the box but when I wanted to customize it a bit and saw the mostly unwritten documentation and how it makes everything much more complicated I gave up and returned to my own config.

[–] tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@highduc @Shareni doomemacs and spacemacs are just too complicated, they should make use of the simpler configurations.

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