Emacs Learning Curve

An interesting language for sure. There is something nice about the way it's all done with lots of parenthesis which looks scary but I think

This is a funny one. When I go through the phases of watching or reading stuff about Linux-y things I've definitely come across Emacs related content but it's usually the comparisons to Vim or yada yada. Now that I'm trying to learn about it I've discovered a whole sub-genre of articles, sites, videos, and the like about it. Great, and like 'no duh of course this exists' but there is a very specfic flavor the content has in comparison.

Firstly it's interesting almost non of this ever shows up as related content when just searching for Unix tools videos lets say. If you're out there watching a video on a LaTeX based workflow you're not going to inherently get suggested Emacs videos. If you aim to watch videos on Emacs though you'll come to find that there are loads on using LaTeX in Emacs…. Interesting.

I'm not entirely sure why this is or would be, but a semi-hilarious thread weaved throughout the Emacs content world is the sheer academic style and volume of how and what is talked about. There are like fast paced trendy Youtube people talking about NeoVim who even do things like make shorts about super quick random macros or plugins to give a whirl. Emacs videos? They're all at least 20 to 30 minutes long. Presentation sides (in Emacs of course) are used, and the density of information is hilarious. These 20 to 30 minute videos don't cover the same things like Vim videos do. If you look up "vim tips" the first 30 are going to give you roughly the same information. I have yet to see a repeat Emacs video. Each of these are about some specific commad that is built in and extendible.