Emacs Workshop for first time users discovering Emacs, file in org-mode format.

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* An Emacs Workshop for Beginners
  It's all about discovering Emacs Really

** Install
*** Emacs 24.3
    http://emacsformacosx.com/
    http://emacs.naquadah.org/
    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/

** Conventions and docs
   How not to get lost.

*** Starting and Quitting Emacs
*** Keyboard notations
    C-x C-c
    self-insert-command, Universal Argument, keymaps    

*** Canceling what you're doing
    C-g
    ESC ESC ESC
    C-[ C-[ C-[
*** Keyboard lossage
    C-h l
*** The Emacs tutorial
    C-h t
*** Info documentation and Help system
    C-h r, C-h C-h, C-h i
    C-x C-h
*** Glossary
    Buffer, Frame, Window, Fringe, Mode Line, Echo Area, Mini Buffer, etc
*** Input Methods
*** Major Modes
*** Minor Modes
*** Logs! aka *Messages*

** Usage
*** Visiting and saving files
    C-x C-f, C-x C-v
    C-x C-s, C-x C-w
    C-x i
    M-x revert-buffer
*** Entering text
    C-o
    M-o
*** Selecting text
    C-SPC
    C-M-SPC
    C-M-h
*** Yanking and Killing text (aka copy/paste)
    cua-mode C-w M-w C-y M-y
    C-S-backspace
    (transient-mark-mode 1)
    (delete-selection-mode)
    (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t)
*** Moving around
    C-a, C-e, M-m, M-f, M-b
    C-M-h, C-M-a, C-M-e
*** Search and Replace
    C-s C-r C-M-% C-M-s
*** Undo, Point and Mark
    C-/ C-x / C-_
*** Auto Indenting
    TAB C-i
*** Commenting
    M-;
*** Operating on rectangles
    C-x r k
*** Keyboard Macros with Counters, muti buffers
    F3 F4 F4
    ~/dev/tapoueh.org/blog/2012/11/06-About-vimgolf.muse
*** Buffers and windows and frames
    C-x o
    C-x b, C-x C-b
    C-x 5 2, C-x 5 o, C-x 5 0
*** M-/ runs the command hippie-expand
*** M-x dired or C-x d or C-x C-j
*** M-x ifconfig
*** M-x calc
*** Encoding
    C-x =, C-u C-x =
    C-x RET C-h

** Setup, kickstart
   Have your setup in a git controled directory, really
*** Emacs -Q and Emacs -q
*** howto bind keys
    (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-j") 'dired-jump)
*** visual tweaking
    (set-face-font 'default "Andale Mono-14")
    (set-fontset-font t 'symbol (font-spec :family "FreeSerif"))
*** ido
    C-x C-f runs the command ido-find-file
*** ffap
    (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
*** themes
*** desktop-save
*** transient-mark-mode, delete-selection-mode, show-paren-mode
*** global-hl-line-mode
*** linum-mode
*** global-auto-revert-mode

** Advanced
*** org-mode
*** emacsclient
*** gnus
*** rcirc
*** TRAMP, sudo
*** windmove
*** dired-x and C-x C-j
*** M-x shell
*** M-x ielm

** Extras
   Non default packages to install for a better experience
*** el-get, MELPA, Marmalade
*** smex
    M-x t-d-o-er
*** browse-kill-ring
    M-y
*** goto-last-change
    C-x C-/ runs the command goto-last-change
*** multiple cursors
    C-M-< runs the command mc/edit-lines
    C-> runs the command mc/mark-next-like-this
    C-< runs the command mc/mark-previous-like-this
    C-M-> runs the command mc/mark-all-like-this
*** magit, psvn
    C-x C-z runs the command magit-status
*** escreen
    M-[ runs the command escreen-goto-prev-screen
    M-] runs the command escreen-goto-next-screen
    C-M-0 runs the command escreen-goto-screen-0
    C-\ c runs the command escreen-create-screen
    C-\ C-\ runs the command escreen-goto-last-screen
*** buffer-move
    <C-S-left> runs the command buf-move-left
*** popwin
    C-h k runs the command describe-key
*** switch-window
    C-x o runs the command switch-window
*** keywiz
*** muse, to show embedded images
    /Users/dim/dev/tapoueh.org/blog/2012/11/06-About-vimgolf.muse
*** paredit
*** powerline
*** projects

** Elisp
   The secret weapon
*** mha:kill-other-buffers
*** dim:kill-buffer-name
*** goto-match-paren
*** dim:increment-number-at-point
*** regexp replace and ,\(elisp-here)