I would read Charle Cave’s terrific tutorials regarding org-mode and remember.el in the order I’ve linked below, but it isn’t required.
Tag Archives: Emacs
Emacs for Git, TextMate and Ruby fans
Ruby on Rails for Newbies: Emacs? Emacs.
ones zeroes majors and minors: TextMate Minor Mode
Emacs links for Saturday September 29th, 2008
Greg Newman’s six part Emacs Series. So far three are up: Part One: Distraction Free Programming with GNU Emacs, Part Two: Emacs Terminal Emulator and Part Three: Dired Directory Management.
Steve Yegge: Emergency Elisp – a great Emacs Lisp tutorial.
Emacs Remote Editting Goodness
Using Ediff Mode on two open buffers and Tramp to access a remote box. Couldn’t be easier.
(Real) Programmers Use Emacs
I didn’t say it. xkcd did
The maintainer of VIM on Debian has switched to Emacs!
Aquamacs – I am home
If you like Emacs, and are looking for version that plays well in OS-X land, it looks like Aquamacs is what you want.
As an aside, following the instructions here, to download and install MIT Scheme, will get you ready to self study Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Eli Bendersky blogged his effort to read the book.
If you’re concerned about learning Lisp to use Emacs, you don’t have to. But if you care to dip in, defmacro’s The Nature of Lisp is a good read.
If you’re looking for Python support, check out this write up (M-x run-python just worked out of the box – nice Aquamacs!).
There are many versions of Emacs available for OS-X beyond Aquamacs and the one that Apple bundles. You can find them on the EmacsWiki. The CarbonEmacsPackage is a popular choice, so is Emacs App. I’ll probably end up experimenting a bit with them both.
There is a great set of Emacs tutorials at IBM’s developerWorks.
Emacs’s Org-mode might be the answer to my note taking needs.