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I'd like to learn Emacs, and was wondering if anyone had any good resources (free or otherwise) to recommend. I'm mostly interested in programming Emacs, starting from the basics, and lots of "exercises". I have used Emacs and most of its editing features, although I'm a bit rusty so a very quick refresher on that would be useful as well.
Thanks
Edit: Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look and update with what I liked...
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Try the EmacsTutorial, or read one of the BooksAboutEmacs. Learn Emacs using its SelfDocumentation. Asking Emacs directly is the best way to get to know it.
My short answer is Yes it is worth taking 3-4 weeks of a diminishing productivity-hit to learn Emacs. Even if you decide you prefer a streamlined unix utility combo over Emacs for development you will derive from it an education widely applicable beyond the editor.
“Emacs is too hard to learn!” It's a common refrain, but Emacs is the product of 40 years of continuous effort to build an extensible, self-documenting text editor. With that, comes complexity; but also freedoms that no other IDE or editor can give you.
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