Write post about my first Emacs moments
Also, my first post with images! (I think)
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|  | title:     "How I started with Emacs" | ||||||
|  | date:      2016-11-03 09:58:41 | ||||||
|  | tags:      [emacs] | ||||||
|  | published: true | ||||||
|  | authon: | ||||||
|  |     name: Gergely Polonkai | ||||||
|  |     email: gergely@polonkai.eu | ||||||
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|  | Sacha Chua has a nice | ||||||
|  | [Emacs chat intro](http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/04/emacs-chat-intro/) article | ||||||
|  | back from 2013. I write this post half because she asks there about my | ||||||
|  | (OK, anyone’s) first Emacs moments, and half because I plan to do it | ||||||
|  | for months now. | ||||||
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|  | I wanted to start using Emacs 6(ish) years ago, and I was like | ||||||
|  | “<kbd>C-x</kbd> what”? (Note that back around 1998, I was among the | ||||||
|  | people who exited `vi` by killing it from another terminal after a | ||||||
|  | bunch of tries & fails like | ||||||
|  | [these](http://osxdaily.com/2014/06/12/how-to-quit-vim/).) | ||||||
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|  | I tried to come back to Emacs a lot of times. And I mean a *lot*, | ||||||
|  | about every two months. I suddenly learned what these cryptic key | ||||||
|  | chord descriptions mean (`C` is for <kbd>Control</kbd> and `M` is for | ||||||
|  | <kbd>Meta</kbd>, which is actually <kbd>Alt</kbd>), but somehow it | ||||||
|  | didn’t *click*. I remained a ViM power user with a huge pile of | ||||||
|  | 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugins. | ||||||
|  | Then [I found Nyan-macs]({% post_url 2014-09-17-nyanmacs %}), | ||||||
|  | which converted me to Emacs, and it is final now. Many of my friends | ||||||
|  | thought I’m just kidding this being the cause, but I’m not. I’m a huge | ||||||
|  | fan of Nyan cat (did you know there is even a site | ||||||
|  | called [nyan.cat](http://nyan.cat/)?) and since then I have it in my | ||||||
|  | mode line: | ||||||
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|  |  | ||||||
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|  | …in my `eshell` prompt: | ||||||
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|  |  | ||||||
|  | …and I also [zone out](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ZoneMode) with | ||||||
|  | Nyan cat: | ||||||
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|  | Now on to more serious stuff. After browsing through all the packages | ||||||
|  | provided by [ELPA](http://elpa.gnu.org/), I found tons of useful (and | ||||||
|  | sometimes, less useful) packages, | ||||||
|  | like | ||||||
|  | [Helm](https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki), | ||||||
|  | [company](http://company-mode.github.io/), | ||||||
|  | [gtags](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuGlobal) (which introduced | ||||||
|  | me to GNU Global, removing Exuberant ctags from my | ||||||
|  | life), | ||||||
|  | [magit](https://magit.vc/), | ||||||
|  | [Projectile](http://batsov.com/projectile/), | ||||||
|  | and [Org](http://orgmode.org/) (OK, it’s actually part of Emacs for a | ||||||
|  | while, but still). I still use these few, but in a month or two, I | ||||||
|  | started | ||||||
|  | to [version control](https://github.com/gergelypolonkai/my-emacs-d) my | ||||||
|  | `.emacs.d` directory, so I can easily transfer it between my home and | ||||||
|  | work machine (and for a few weeks now, even to my phone: I’m using | ||||||
|  | Termux on Android). Then, over these two years I wrote some packages | ||||||
|  | like [GobGen](https://github.com/gergelypolonkai/gobgen.el), and a | ||||||
|  | small addon for Calendar | ||||||
|  | providing | ||||||
|  | [Hungarian holidays](https://github.com/gergelypolonkai/hungarian-holidays), | ||||||
|  | and I found a lot more (in no particular | ||||||
|  | order): | ||||||
|  | [git-gutter](https://github.com/syohex/emacs-git-gutter), | ||||||
|  | [multiple-cursors](https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el), | ||||||
|  | [origami](https://github.com/gregsexton/origami.el), | ||||||
|  | [ace-window](https://github.com/abo-abo/ace-window), | ||||||
|  | [avy](https://github.com/abo-abo/avy), | ||||||
|  | [beacon](https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon), and a lot more. | ||||||
|  |  | ||||||
|  | What is more important (to me) is that I started using | ||||||
|  | the [use-package](https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package) package, | ||||||
|  | which can automatically download packages that are not installed on my | ||||||
|  | current local system. Together | ||||||
|  | with | ||||||
|  | [auto-package-update](https://github.com/rranelli/auto-package-update.el), | ||||||
|  | it is *very* practical. | ||||||
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|  | In addition, I started to follow the blogs of a bunch of Emacs | ||||||
|  | users/gurus. I’ve already | ||||||
|  | mentioned [Sacha Chua](http://sachachua.com/). She’s a charming, | ||||||
|  | cheerful person, writing a lot about Emacs and project management | ||||||
|  | (among other things). Another one | ||||||
|  | is [Bozhidar Batsov](http://batsov.com/), who, among other things, had | ||||||
|  | an initiate to lay down the foundation of | ||||||
|  | a | ||||||
|  | [common Elisp coding style](https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-lisp-style-guide). Another | ||||||
|  | favourite of mine | ||||||
|  | is [Endless Parentheses](http://endlessparentheses.com/), whence I got | ||||||
|  | a lot of ideas. | ||||||
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