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submitted 6 days ago by paequ2 to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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I've always been curious about Emacs, but haven't been able to learn it.

This playlist looks promising, but ufff each video is like 1 hour and most of the video is just random chatting because it's a live stream...

Does anyone know any better video series? Something structured and to the point?

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[–] kruetz@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

@paequ2@lemmy.today "Emacs" will launch a new instance of Emacs, while "Emacs (Client)" will connect to an already running Emacs Server – unless Emacs takes a long time to start up you may not notice a difference.

Doom and Spacemacs are predefined configurations for Emacs that include many additional packages and custom settings, all of which you could manually add to your own Emacs configuration if you had the time and patience. They both include a range of opinionated decisions about what packages to include and how Emacs should look and feel, which may or may not suit you. I don't use either of them, but if you're coming from Vim you might find them interesting because they provide a similar modal editing experience.

[–] paequ2 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Oooooh, ok. Thanks for breaking that down.

What about Emacs GUI vs Emacs TUI? Do people run Emacs as a terminal app? Or is the typical way of running Emacs as a GUI app? How's the shell integration with the GUI app? Normally, I like staying in the terminal.

[–] kruetz@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've only used the GUI interface, and I think it has some UI features that aren't available in the TUI interface, but you should be able to use both with (mostly? entirely?) the same configuration.

There are various ways to run terminal/shell sessions from within Emacs, and to run shell commands and capture their output. So while I almost exclusively use the command line, I do it all from within the Emacs GUI.

If you happen to use git, you might consider trying magit, an Emacs interface for using git that many people find vastly preferable to using git directly.

[–] paequ2 2 points 5 days ago

So while I almost exclusively use the command line, I do it all from within the Emacs GUI.

That's good to hear. Normally, I have a bunch of file and terminal buffers open in Vim and work across all of them—and stay in Vim the whole time. (Well, unless I need something like a browser.)

Sounds like this is definitely possible in Emacs. Good! I was scared for a moment because I thought I would have to... gasps alt-tab between Emacs and my terminal.

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