Mickey Petersen

Very glad I read this book. I think the most important thing is that it gives you a _mental model_ for how to think in emacs, demystifying a lot of what is going on, how to think in terms of buffers and various structures and units emacs commands think in, how to go about looking for help or info within emacs itself.

I'm sure it didn't teach me all there is to know about emacs but it gave me places to anchor onto and habits to hone before I go off and free-form everything. It also gave me a great comparison of a lot of seemingly either/or choices ... eshell/term/shell? ido vs helm/ivy? that turn out to complement each other far more than I thought, but also suggested the strengths and appropriate times for each.

I knew how to work my way around emacs but in a hodgepodge fashion ... the thing I most value about this book is that it provides me with a framework, every time I reach beyond my comfort zone, into thinking how I can best improve my general emacs craftship as I figure out what I'm trying to do.… (mehr)