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summary
Claims that Emacs is a programmable environment rather than just an editor and that most user functionality is written in Emacs Lisp get demonstrated: Emacs 24.2 uses package.el to download and byte‑compile a package (it installs and loads the memory‑usage package), the file manager dired and isearch navigate buffers, and magit stages, commits and resets a Git change successfully. The workshop notes “thousands of commands” and “~30 years” of development, shows editing ~/.emacs to load a theme, and everything works live.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Workshop introduction
- 1:17What is Emacs
- 4:01Emacs capabilities
- 6:07Lisp as extension language
- 7:14Emacs UI strengths
- 11:47Emacs community
- 12:48Emacs implementations
- 16:18Why Emacs
- 20:15Installing Emacs 24
- 23:43Emacs basics
- 34:27Keybindings and help
- 47:52Emacs terminology
- 53:39Navigation and editing
- 1:01:38Buffers and windows
- 1:19:43Advanced commands
- 1:20:26Startup customization
- 1:26:29Package management
- 1:32:12File management modes
- 1:37:31Magit demo
- 1:47:11Wrap-up
