Ryan Tomayko

WTF - Haml —

I love this so much:

… one way or another it seems I need something called EMACS.. WTF..!!!!! I dare you to install it and see how many WTFsss you will say…. it’s like some text editor that is so smart that you dont use the mouse dont even use the cursor keys..if you want to go back one character you hit control then B!!! Brilliant!!! two random keys instead of one with an arrow!!!! WWWTTTFFFF!! ok I might not need this crap…. lost a day learning to use the Rubik cube of text editors.

It’s easy to pfft and blow off this kind of … criticism, but if you can look past the make believe grammar and punctuation you really do get a sense for how hard it is for newbies to wrap their heads around even very basic set of tools needed to build things on the web. Maybe what we do is just hard and complex and there’s nothing we can do to make it simpler. I’m just always surprised when I get to peek through someone else’s eyes and see just how fucked up everything must seem.

/sys/man/1/emacs —

The emacs(1) manpage from Bell Labs’s Plan 9.

HTTP PUT and GET from emacs —

Yep :)

Emacs as Cargo —

Came across this odd section in a “leaving Emacs for vi” document and it has a really interesting description of the history of FSF/GNU, Linux, and the evolution of Free Software. Seems out of place in this document but is worth reading.

Emacs WebDev Environment —

Information on setting up emacs for (X)HTML web development including nxml-mode, rng-validate-mode, etc.

Sam's Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours —

yeah whatever… I’ve been trying to learn emacs for years.

TRAMP User Manual —

A remote file editing package for Emacs. Uses ssh/scp.

EmacsNewbie —

Super useful tips on diving into Emacs.

Emacs Notepad —

A bunch of extremely useful notes on hacking emacs. (Ftrain.com)

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual —

Goddam this is more shit than could ever possibly fit in my brain.

Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours —

Free book on picking up Emacs.

Emacs reference card —

Single page printable version available.

The Joel on Software Forum - Explain why emacs is popular? (Not a troll) —

After using Emacs for three years, I think I finally need to learn how to use it. This has some good pointers.