Learning GNU Emacs

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Just a nitpick: The O'Reilly book title is actually _Learning GNU Emacs_. ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006488/ )

This is a good starting point: Learning GNU Emacs http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565921528/ This might ease some pains: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs

He's definitely a participant, both in terms of software (off the top of my head: fetchmail, several contributions to Linux, Emacs, and Nethack) and tech books (The Art of Unix Programming, some of Learning GNU Emacs, others). If anything, the problem with ESR is that he considers himself an expert on explaining hacker culture to outsiders, yet tends to excessively project his own values, politics, etc. on it when doing so.

I learned emacs from an O'Reilly book: Learning GNU Emacs http://books.google.com/books?id=a_lea3-w-1kC&printsec=f... If that and/or the tutorial doesn't do it for you, google "emacswiki" and see what else you can find. Also, "steve yegge emacs" (but maybe not on your first day, unless you need further inspiration).

…(which are open source and ubiquitous -- you'll probably never need to learn another text editor ever again). Learn one of those. Whichever one you like best. O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs was a very good book for me when I was a beginner; there's probably a similar book for vi.

Hmmm, here's a list of books I really like: Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++ by Frenck The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System by McKusick/Neville-Neil Learning GNU Emacs by Cameron, et al. Practical Common Lisp by Seibel The C Programming Language by K&R The C++ Programming Language Stroustrup The Design and Analysis of Algorithms by Leviten Assembly Language Programming for the IBM PC Family by Jones Essays/Collections: Hackers & Painters by PG Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Feynman What Do You Care What Other People Think by Feynman The Cathedral & The Bazaar by Raymond Novels: The Soul of a New Machine by Kidder Where Wizards Stay up Late by Hafner

…es buffers & bookmarks better than vim. I actually use the calendar feature. I like how the functions you right get integrated into the help facility automatically. The "Learning GNU Emacs" book is great. The architecture seems better than vim. I wasn't thrilled with all the "chording", but I'm writing new functions and making the keybindings comfortable for me. The help facility seems superior to me. Dynamic abbreviations, window/frame control. I'm sure there's more, but I only switched about 10 days ago :)