The Emacs Tutorial as ELisp Tour
post emacs elisp tutorial toolsI am trying to really learn how to use GNU Emacs. One thing that strikes me is how the Emacs user interface can be thought of as a client application to an Emacs Lisp API. This is not a revolutionary thought, but it really stuck in my head. I reread the official tutorial, focusing on the functions rather than the keybindings that invoke them.
The first function is obviously the one to get the tutorial started.
Function | Keybinding | Description |
---|---|---|
help-with-tutorial |
C-h t |
Launch the Emacs learn-by-doing tutorial |
Then I spent a couple days with liberal usage of describe-key and
describe-function to better understand what the tutorial was
describing. It was helpful. Now I just want to organize those notes
and post them on the blog.
Or I could dump the list onto a blog post.