Serious question: What's with all the meme frogs on the vim video thumbnails on YT? I must be too old to understand the internet, but I thought that was some kind of hipster skinhead thing. Is vim the official text editor of 4chan now?
4chan has a technology board that obsesses over old CLI utilities and stuff less mainstream that they consider to not be “bloat”. So yeah, a vim YouTuber probably is trying to reach out to the 4chan crowd.
I tried to switch to emacs but couldn't find an introductory tutorial that was written for mere mortals.
Currently use vim, or things like gedit and kate that come w/ a DE. I would really like to learn to use emacs, but the last so called "beginner" tutorial I tried started with _learn a new lisp dialect so you can write emacs extensions_. Seriously.
Does anyone know where to find a tutorial that teaches you how to do things like open a file, type some stuff, and save the file?
Maybe show whitespace change highlighting modes and a few hotkeys if I want to get fancy... but like otherwise normal beginner stuff?
Aside from the built in docs, mastering emacs is quite beginner friendly.
It's aimed at people with prior programming experience, but not any emacs experience.
You can get a few chapters for free.
