chaiguolong / Learn-Emacs-In-21-Days

Learn Emacs in 21 Days from zilongshanren

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• Learn Emacs in 21 Days from zilongshanren – by Vincent

Day 01

• Emacs install
• Read Emacs Tutorial
• Learning some Emacs Lisp syntax
• How to used built-in function
• How to get some help from Emacs self
• Custom your self `init.el` file
• Install package `company`
• Emacs org-mode

Day 02

Fix some anoying stuff

• 1. make cursor style to bar
• 2. disable backup file
• 3. enable recentf-mode
• 4. bring eletric-indent-mode back (Default is True)
• 5. add `delete selection mode`

Make Emacs more fancy

• 1. open Emacs with full screen
• 2. show match parentheses
• 3. highlight current line

Improve built-in package system

• 1. make package system more powerful with MELPA source.
• 2. install a theme, e.g. dracula/monokai (you can seach that from

https://melpa.org/#/getting-started)

• 3. install hungry delete mode
• 4. package-list-packages (add/delete/update package)
• 5. install and configure smex and ivy mode
• 6. use `costomize-group` to customize the package settings.
• 7. install and configure smart parentheses mode
• 8. NOTICE: often you won’t need to update packages, sometimes will occur errors.

Setup a JavaScript IDE

• install js2-mode and start to write javascript
• install nodejs-repl to execute code inside Emacs

Learn more from Emacs itself

• C-h C-f : find function
• C-h C-v : find variable
• C-h C-k : find function on key

Org-mode: GTD

• Agenda files and genda view
• Learn how to schedule items and set deadline
  • Schedule: C-c C-s
  • text-mode / special-mode / prog-mode * Dead Line: C-c C-d

Exercise

• M-x info

Day 02

Fixes some annoying stuff

1. make cursor style to bar
2. disable backup file
3. enable recentf-mode
4. bring electric-indent-mode back
5. add delete selection mode

Make Emacs more fancy

1. Open with full screen
2. Show match parenthese
3. Highlight current line

Improve built-in package system

1. make package system more powerful with Melpa
2. install a theme (monokai, dracula)
3. install hungry delete mode
4. package-list-packages (add/delete/update package)

Setup a javascript IDE

1. Install js2-mode and start to write javascript
2. Install nodejs-repl to execute code inside Emacs

Learn more from Emacs itself

• C-h C-f (find-function)
• C-h C-v (find-variable)
• C-h C-k (find-function-on-key)

Org-mode(Bonus Time)

Agenda files and agenda

Learn how to schedule items and set deadline

Day 03

Split your configurations into multiple files

• Use Git to management your init file
• help window is annoying
• load-file, load-path and load
• features, provide and require, autoload
• naming convention
• define your abbrevs
• user `counsel-git` to find file in git managed project

Major mode and minor mode in details

• Conventions
• Mode key map and mode hook
• Let’s take a look at package in elpa (company)

Better defaults

Dired mode and file related operations

Bonous time: Use org-mode literate programming to organize you Emacs configurations

Exercise