Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Eduardo Ochs]

On Sun, 21 May 2023 at 21:45, Frederick Bartlett
<frederick.bartlett@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I’ve been using Emacs for nearly 30 years, but I was never taught it and
> did not take computer science classes (unless you count Fortran).
>
> FWIW, my main OS is Fedora Linux, though my company insists that everyone
> have Windows, so I also use WSL.
>
> So I can use it as a text editor proficiently enough, but am quite ignorant
> of Emacs Lisp (and all other Lisps), though I have written the odd macro
> here and there.
>
> Is there an easy way to learn how to use all the resources in the Emacs
> ecosystem without becoming an expert Lisper?
>
> E.g., I just tried to install helm and am completely baffled by the info
> and error messages I’m getting:
>
> INFO:  Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lilypond-init.el
> (source)...
>
> While I do occasionally edit lilypond files in Emacs, I was not aware that
> I had integrated it into Emacs (I mostly use Frescobaldi), and lilypond is
> not in my init.el file.
>
> ERROR: find: ‘./emacs/helm’: No such file or directory
>
> Since I invoked
>   ./emacs/helm/emacs-helm.sh -P /usr/bin/emacs-28.2
> from my home directory, I would expect it to know where it is.
>
> There must be some extremely basic knowledge that I have completely missed
> … any pointers?
>
> Thanks!
> Fred


Hi Fred,

if your intent is to learn the basics of Emacs Lisp, take a look here:

http://anggtwu.net/eev-intros/find-elisp-intro.html

Some people love that mini-tutorial and some people hate it - but I
thought that I had to share it anyway... =P

  Cheers,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/#eev
    http://anggtwu.net/eepitch.html