I am a newbie to emacs and Linux in general (started my linux journey 2 months ago) and want to learn emacs. Does anyone have good ressources to learn emacs as a beginner? Also should I use a distro like doom Emacs or should I do it from scratch
Start with vanilla Emacs. Slowly but surely you’ll grow your config to the point of … throw it away. And start again. Same story a few times and in the end, there you have it.
I’m pretty new to emacs too, the best tip I can give you is to start from “raw” emacs, make your own config.
Read Docs, look into others config (do not copy paste), watch systemcrafters tutorial video series.
Atm my emacs config is part of my workflow, I’m pretty happy with it.
YouTube has a Lot of great emacs content!
The best way to learn it is to use it. Start with vanilla emacs and a project, and commit to using it. You’ll learn more by needing to figure out how to mark, copy, and paste than just reading about it.
Work through the tutorial.
Learn how to use the built-in help functions.
Read the built in documentation.
patience
people who used emacs for 20 years still learn some stuff :)
join irc, or mastodon or any place to chat with people, it helps getting some things faster
watch emacsrocks, videos from a few years ago but excellent ratio between short demo and long term insight :)
I’m glad nobody is recommending garbage like doom emacs, evil and etc.
Just start from the tutorial start adding your keybindings to make your life easy.Do the internal tutorial. Just click on the link of the splash page
Welcome!
Try this one
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
After I got more familiar with Emacs I spent some time to walk through each chapter of the Emacs manual. Even if you think you know how to search and replace within Emacs, after reading the chapter about it you know even more.
And what is most often forgotten: Use the menu bar. You can find most of the basic commands and their shortcuts there.
Don’t use “distros” (doom and such) use the vanilla emacs. Do the tutorial and read the manual.
I found this guide helpful.
I wrote a website for beginners, focused on writing prose, not code
Learning emacs is a beautiful journey. I am learning it since 2003, and i think i am in the middle of the the travel. Dont stop if you fall. The road is long.