Guides

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I’ve create a number of video tutorial series to help you learn GNU Emacs and GNU Guix in greater depth!

The Emacs Essentials series intends to teach you everything you need to know about the built-in functionality of GNU Emacs. Emacs beginners should start here, but seasoned Emacs users might learn a few hidden gems too!

The Emacs From Scratch series is for users who know the basics and now want to create their own modern Emacs configuration. I take you step by step through the process of building up a fully custom configuration using many packages that are either built-in or authored by the Emacs community.

The Emacs Desktop Environment series is a more advanced course where I show you how to build an entire desktop environment with Emacs and EXWM on Linux. If you want to truly “live” in Emacs, this is for you!

In the Learning Emacs Lisp series, I explain the core customization language of Emacs called Emacs Lisp. We start with the basics of the language and then embark on a project to build an Emacs package from scratch!

Emacs can also be used as an IDE (integrated development environment) like you might be used to from other editors. The Emacs IDE series will show you how to set up Emacs as an IDE to get rich development functionality for many languages!

Emacs can do many things, and this series will show you how you can use it to manage your e-mail! The Emacs Mail series shows you how to use the mu4e package to build the most productive e-mail workflow you’ve ever had.

There are many interesting topics we can cover about Emacs that don’t require their own dedicated series. The Emacs Tips series is a collection of videos that will cover many other packages and configuration tricks we didn’t get to in the other series!

The best interface for Git is in Emacs and it’s called Magit! The Mastering Git with Magit series will show you the ropes of how to use Magit to make all of your day to day source control operations ninja fast!

The Advanced Emacs Package Management will teach more about how to use package managers like straight.el to manage Emacs packages in a more effective way!

Org Mode gives us the ability to organize our life in Emacs, but we can go even further by building a personal knowledgebase in Emacs using tools like Org Roam! The Build a Second Brain in Emacs series will show you how to build a personal knowledge management and productivity workflow with these excellent packages.

Org Mode has the ability to export to various other formats including HTML. We can use that capability to publish website directly from Emacs Org Mode. The Publishing Websites with Org Mode series will show you how to build and publish a website from Org Mode files using Emacs Lisp just like the one you’re reading right now!

Want to chat with the communities around various free and open source projects from the comfort of Emacs? The Chatting with Emacs series will teach you how to do that!

GNU Guix is an amazing tool for managing not only the programs you use, but also your entire system configuration. The Craft Your System with GNU Guix series will walk you through the process of learning and using Guix step by step so that you can craft your own repeatable system configuration!