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jeena on May 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: New GNU Emacs website

I'm using emacs for a year now but I'm reallt bad at it, I wish there was a text like your comment with the words linked to specific webpages or videos which explain how to install everything you need for that word and show how to use it. I would link:

"Semantic navigation", "incremental search", "semantic editing", "keyboard macros", "optimized keyboard navigation", "inserting simple and complex code templates", "managing projects", "complex work with Git repositories", "regex incremental search"

johanvts on May 9, 2016 [–]

Something I learned way to late was to use the build in features for learning about functions and variables.

C-h f : find help for functions C-h v : find help for variables C-h k : Get help for a key-combination

If you have helm mode installed it's often very easy to find the functions you are looking for.

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