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I've always been curious about Emacs, but haven't been able to learn it.

This playlist looks promising, but ufff each video is like 1 hour and most of the video is just random chatting because it's a live stream...

Does anyone know any better video series? Something structured and to the point?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've only used the GUI interface, and I think it has some UI features that aren't available in the TUI interface, but you should be able to use both with (mostly? entirely?) the same configuration.

There are various ways to run terminal/shell sessions from within Emacs, and to run shell commands and capture their output. So while I almost exclusively use the command line, I do it all from within the Emacs GUI.

If you happen to use git, you might consider trying magit, an Emacs interface for using git that many people find vastly preferable to using git directly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

So while I almost exclusively use the command line, I do it all from within the Emacs GUI.

That's good to hear. Normally, I have a bunch of file and terminal buffers open in Vim and work across all of them—and stay in Vim the whole time. (Well, unless I need something like a browser.)

Sounds like this is definitely possible in Emacs. Good! I was scared for a moment because I thought I would have to... gasps alt-tab between Emacs and my terminal.

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