Hi Folks,<p>I have been trying to learn how to use Emacs. And find some of its features really nice. Especially, the interactive search, and text formatting.<p>What commands do you use most often? Do these require some additional scripts to be installed?<p>Thanks!
That's not how I would approach the problem of learning emacs. I'd choose something I want to get more efficient at (managing notes, dealing with broken compilationsm finding files, editing Java files, etc) and research packages for that. Once you find a package, pick a couple commands to learn, tape them to your monitor, use them until they are wired, pick a couple more, rinse and repeat.<p>In all circumstances, make sure you know how to use all the various help tools and make sure you know enough elisp to do some basic configuration.
C-h:<p>'C-h S' to get help on that obscure bash built-in or elisp function,<p>'C-h v' to get help on an elisp variable (most modes offer a lot of customisation via setting particular variables),<p>'C-h m' to show the current mode's keybindings,<p>'C-h k' to find the name of the function bound to a particular key sequence,<p>'C-h t' for a tutorial on all the basic (and not so basic) editing & buffer/window management commands,<p>and 'C-h ?' to get a list of other help commands.
I think the reason why many find it useful is the speed at which you can work because of all the shortcuts. I'm still faster on Geany though :-( need to use Emacs more to remember all the commands