On Fri 06 Feb 2026 at 11:00:59 (-0500), [email protected] wrote: > On Friday, February 06, 2026 06:21:15 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > > org mode in Emacs would probably (definitely?) allow you to do > > everything you have indicated. Emacs is available as a Debian package > > out of the box. > > Aside: I tried Emacs quite some time ago (ca. 2000 - 2002) and found it very > difficult to get into and eventually abandoned it. I had come from the > Windows > world and was used to WYSIWG editors and word processors (e.g., Word). > > I'm willing to put at least a little time into reconsidering Emacs (should it > be EMACS?) but would like to find a list where beginner's level questions > might > be asked (or, I guess I can search with DDG or ask an AI (I currently > sometimes use chatgpt (cautiously))).
There's an O'Reilly book available. For free, there's: www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/emacs/emacs-tutorial.pdf which looks more like a systematic approach to emacs, rather than dive-into-emacs style. But it's easy enough to edit some-old-junk and play with it, because it has so much self-documentation within. The PDF has a brief chapter on lisp, for using it in emacs, not for learning lisp. (My own use of emacs lisp is strictly programming-by-imitation.) Cheers, David.
