How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners / A visual tutorial
More posts about: emacs, sketches Tags: emacs-basics, guide // 57 Comments »
UPDATE 2013-09-23: New, much larger version – see below!
Here’s version 2 (September 2013). You can print this at 16.5″x10.75″ at 300dpi. Have an ordinary printer? Check out PosteRazor!
Original post from May 2013:
I thought I’d draw a one-page guide for some of the things that people often ask me about or that would help people learn Emacs (and enjoy it). You can click on the image for a larger version that you can scroll through or download. It should print all right on 8.5×11″ paper (landscape) if you want to keep it around as a reminder. Might even work at 11×17″. =)
You can find the image on Imgur too.
If you’re completely new to Emacs, start with these Emacs beginner resources. If you’re comfortable with Emacs and you want to learn Emacs Lisp, check out my Read Lisp, Tweak Emacs series. For more Emacs inspiration, check out Planet Emacsen.
Feel free to share, reuse, or modify this under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence. Enjoy!
Possibly counterintuitive point: if you’re a developer or system administrator, t’s good to learn at least the basics of Vim. Despite the perception of a “Emacs vs. Vi” holy war (one of the classic battles in computer science), it makes sense to know both editors especially if you work with people who use Vi a lot. Know enough Vi to find your way around, and then learn how to customize Emacs to fit you to a tee. That way, you’ll avoid the pressure of not being able to work well with your team or your infrastructure, and you’ll have the space to explore Emacs. =) Emacs is totally awesome.
Need help with Emacs? Feel free to leave a comment or get in touch with me. I’m often in the #emacs channel on irc.freenode.net , and I also occasionally schedule time to help people one-on-one. Also, the Emacs community (mailing lists, newsgroups, IRC channel) can be wonderful, so definitely reach out to them too. =)
Meta discussion: How can I make this even better? What else would you like me to draw a guide for? I’d love to hear your thoughts! Also, thanks to dash, nicferrier, fledermaus, ijp, hypnocat, Fuco, macrobat, taylanub, axrfnu, Sebboh, thorkill, jave_, jrm, and the rest of #emacs for suggestions and feedback!
Update 2013-05-18: Check out the conversations on Hacker News and Reddit!
11 Pingbacks/Trackbacks
- 19 May 2013 at 1:05am
- Article: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners » sacha chua :: living an awesome life | Least Action 19 May 2013 at 3:05am
- Visto nel Web – 79 | Ok, panico 20 May 2013 at 12:05pm
- How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners | Interesting Reads 21 May 2013 at 9:05pm
- 国外的一个Emacser写的如何学习Emacs » 了解并拥有 28 May 2013 at 11:05am
- Google Hangout with Sacha Chua – koma's world 12 June 2013 at 3:06am
- Joey's Blog | Web’s Dead, Baby: Part 2 02 September 2013 at 8:09am
- How to learn Emacs keyboard shortcuts (a visual tutorial for newbies) » sacha chua :: living an awesome life 10 October 2013 at 9:10pm
- Cómo aprender Emacs | 10 August 2014 at 2:08pm
- Learn Emacs! | TODO: need cool title here 03 August 2016 at 2:08pm
- Clojure Gazette 1.42 | Clojure Gazette 24 September 2016 at 6:09am
- Debian es fiable, pero no a prueba de soberbios! – Quijote Libre
[...] ...
[...] How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners ::: Sacha Chua ...
[...] via Hacker News ...
[...] 这里是图的原文。 ...
[...] Sketchnoting is an excellent example of this and she has already had a very ...
[...] to disappoint (nothing can live up to that amount of hype). As my one piece of ...
[…] you like this, you might also like the similar hand-drawn one-page guide I made ...
[…] Fuente original ...
[…] ...
[…] How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners ...
[…] How to learn Emacs ...