Object Commando

I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the Lambda Lounge on Emacs. I’m planning on spending about half the talk on some Emacs conceptual basics. When it comes to the basics I’m going to try and avoid the “this key does this” and “that key does that”. I think going over cursor movements etc will just be lost. If you’re truely new to Emacs, you’ll need to go through the Emacs Tutorial (which comes with Emacs, there’s a link to it on startup) to get the basic movements down. Instead I’m planning to go over the concepts of buffers in Emacs, the modeline, the minibuffer, the .emacs file etc. I’m also planning on spending a decent amount of time going over the help system, both the info system and the built-in Elisp documentation. Then I’m planning on going over some Emacs Lisp basics, Eshell, org-mode and a little on Dired. Then I’m planning on doing some development demos, specifically highlighting REPL environment integration into Emacs with SLIME, Tuareg Mode and maybe some Ruby.