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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
What a great question! Here is the path I've taken:
Step 0: Read the Emacs Tutorial
Read the Emacs Tutorial before anything else. It sounds like you've done this. Good on ya! However, for anyone ...
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
In my experience, the included tutorial on Emacs Lisp was not too helpful (I tried twice over the years and failed). Instead, I finally used the included Emacs Lisp Reference.
What finally did work:
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
I recommend the "Emacs Lisp Intro".
The "Emacs Lisp Intro" might be already available in info format within your Emacs. Try C-h i m Emacs Lisp Intro RET or evaluate (info "(eintr) Top") in Emacs.
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
Start with the Emacs Wiki page Learn Emacs Lisp.
Not that that page itself will teach you Emacs Lisp. It will instead point to learning resources -- exactly what you're looking for here, with your ...
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
As a refresher on Lisp I highly recommend the first three chapters of Peter Norvigs Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. Those give you a great and fast pace (re)introduction to Lisp ...
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Does anyone have any good tips for starting to use emacs?
Do you want to jump right in, or want to take your time configuring?
Distros/Starter Kits
If you want to get productive right away, it's highly recommended to start with an Emacs Distro, as it would ...
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
The Elisp track on exercism.io is also a fun way to improve your skills. The exercises are more focused on elisp than on Emacs but will cover a good range of basics like regular expressions, data ...
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C-v does not move to the next screen appears: -- VISUAL BLOCK --
My crystal ball tells me you're not using a vanilla Emacs config, but that you have something like Evil enabled (are you using Spacemacs, maybe?).
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hierarchy of modes
The (now built in!) hierarchy package has an example on how to do this.
See: https://github.com/DamienCassou/hierarchy#major-modes-hierarchy-example
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
What would you recommend for a guy in my position to get learning the
Emacs LISP environment and start hacking Emacs.
I really don't think you need to read something specific on emacs lisp. It's no ...
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Does anyone have any good tips for starting to use emacs?
Emacs comes with a comprehensive manual which you can open with C-h r. It also has an interactive tutorial which you can start with C-h t.
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Does anyone have any good tips for starting to use emacs?
This is one of these topics with no right or wrong answers. Fortunately, you didn't ask which editor is the best one. :-) I myself have been using Emacs for almost 10 years and would still consider ...
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
I see this question is a bit old, but ever relevant for those interested in Emacs and Emacs Lisp, so I'll add a suggestion to the collection of excellent ones found here:
Do Advent of Code in Emacs ...
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
Seems to me that Loren Ipsum's answer covers it rather well.
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/47320/21433
I would simply add that I'm assuming you know the basics of Lisp. That would help you, but ...
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How can I start learning Emacs Lisp?
Since you have a background in Common Lisp and you're "past the basics", there is no point getting lost in the "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp".
What you can do right away (I don't have a ...
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What emacs communities exist?
emacs.zeef.com is actually an impressive resource for anything that's Emacs related, communities included.
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