Learning Emacs

[ankursethi]

I've been using Emacs for minor programming tasks for a while (in fact, over an year now). All this time, I've simply copy-pasted whatever I neeed from the EmacsWiki into my .emacs file.

Now I want to dive into the internals of Emacs and write my own Elisp packages (and customize my Emacs setup further).

Many people here are probably using Emacs for their programming needs. How did you learn Emacs and Elisp? What did you read? Where did you find help?

[unutbu]

Open emacs. Type C-h C-h i. This will open an info window. You'll find lots of good documentation here on emacs and much much more.

You can navigate as usual for any emacs buffer. Press return while the cursor is on any underlined text to go to the text associated with that link.

Read the 'Info' link to learn how to navigate info pages. There are many links related to emacs. You might want to read 'Emacs Lisp Intro' to learn how to program emacs.