Would you like to write a "Emacs with GNU for dummies" post?
Thanks.
Not very much, but I can and will give you a few stepping stones to get you from your side of the mud puddle to the other.
As a newb undoubtedly familiar with apps with pull-down menus but little to no experience with either a TUI -- text user interface -- or command-line interface I recommend that you download and install an Emacs for whatever OS you're using.
{aside: Emacs has been ported to every major operating system under the sun.}
Once you've got it installed, use it like a regular GUI app for at least 3 weeks.
Once you're comfortable with it as a plain-ol' GUI app you can confidently experiment without your world crumbling around your ears ... which is what a lot of newbies experience when they try to learn too-new and/or too-much before getting sufficiently grounded to back up a few steps before proceeding on up the learning curve.
While one is using it in GUI mode via pull-down menus he or she will be treated to clues such as C-e, C-x C-e, and such which is short hand the key stroke which will do the same thing as the menu item.
`C' means the <control> key
`M' means the `Meta' key which is usually the `alt' key on most keyboards.
But ... you're not done with your 3-week acclamation yet, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.
There are simply shitloads of youtube tutorials ... which we can't presently reference via link via the vBulletin software of this group; which gives us the opportunity to put emacs to use to do an end run around this obstacle.
I can round up a few youtube tutorials, put them in an org-mode file -- which I include in a code block -- then convert the org-mode file into an html file -- also embeddable in a code block -- and those capable of copy-then-paste operations can paste html snippet into a file, click on it, and have it open as a tab in whatever browser they've associated with the html file type.
What follows below is plain text which pasted in a file and opened with org-mode will produce a hierarchical outline. One CAN find the links nested within and copy-then-paste them into an address line of a web browser.
* org-mode content ready for conversion to html regarding [[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emacs+for+dummies&t=ffsb&ia=web][emacs for dummies]] as per request of [[https://intpforum.com/member.php?u=14422][JR_IsP]] of [[https://intpforum.com/][INTPforum.org]]
** [[https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emacs+for+dummies&t=ffsb&ia=web][emacs for dummies duckduckgo search]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emacs+tutorial+for+beginners][`emacs tutorial for beginners' hosted on/by Youtube]]
** [[elisp:(org-html-export-as-html)][emacs lisp code for converting the progenitor org-mode file into html anyone can run in their browser of choice]]
The following *should* be able to be copied into a file, then clicked on to launch as a local `web page' via your default web browser:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>org-mode content ready for conversion to html regarding `emacs for dummies' as per request of JR_IsP of INTPforum</title>
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padding: 2px; font-size: 80%; font-weight: normal; }
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.timestamp-kwd { color: #5f9ea0; }
.right { margin-left: auto; margin-right: 0px; text-align: right; }
.left { margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; }
.center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; }
.underline { text-decoration: underline; }
#postamble p, #preamble p { font-size: 90%; margin: .2em; }
p.verse { margin-left: 3%; }
pre {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #eee;
padding: 8pt;
font-family: monospace;
overflow: auto;
margin: 1.2em;
}
pre.src {
position: relative;
overflow: visible;
padding-top: 1.2em;
}
pre.src:before {
display: none;
position: absolute;
background-color: white;
top: -10px;
right: 10px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
pre.src:hover:before { display: inline;}
pre.src-sh:before { content: 'sh'; }
pre.src-bash:before { content: 'sh'; }
pre.src-emacs-lisp:before { content: 'Emacs Lisp'; }
pre.src-R:before { content: 'R'; }
pre.src-perl:before { content: 'Perl'; }
pre.src-java:before { content: 'Java'; }
pre.src-sql:before { content: 'SQL'; }
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caption.t-bottom { caption-side: bottom; }
td, th { vertical-align:top; }
th.right { text-align: center; }
th.left { text-align: center; }
th.center { text-align: center; }
td.right { text-align: right; }
td.left { text-align: left; }
td.center { text-align: center; }
dt { font-weight: bold; }
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.footpara { display: block; }
.footdef { margin-bottom: 1em; }
.figure { padding: 1em; }
.figure p { text-align: center; }
.inlinetask {
padding: 10px;
border: 2px solid gray;
margin: 10px;
background: #ffffcc;
}
#org-div-home-and-up
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textarea { overflow-x: auto; }
.linenr { font-size: smaller }
.code-highlighted { background-color: #ffff00; }
.org-info-js_info-navigation { border-style: none; }
#org-info-js_console-label
{ font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap; }
.org-info-js_search-highlight
{ background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; }
/*]]>*/-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
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JavaScript code in this tag.
Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GNU GPL) as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version. The code is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU GPL for more details.
As additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7, you
may distribute non-source (e.g., minimized or compacted) forms of
that code without the copy of the GNU GPL normally required by
section 4, provided you include this license notice and a URL
through which recipients can access the Corresponding Source.
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for the JavaScript code in this tag.
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<h1 class="title">org-mode content ready for conversion to html regarding `emacs for dummies' as per request of JR_IsP of INTPforum</h1>
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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-1">1. org-mode content ready for conversion to html regarding emacs for dummies as per request of JR<sub>IsP</sub> of INTPforum.org</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sec-1-1">1.1. emacs for dummies duckduckgo search</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-1-2">1.2. `emacs tutorial for beginners' hosted on/by Youtube</a></li>
<li><a href="#sec-1-3">1.3. [[elisp:()][emacs lisp code for converting the progenitor org-mode file into html anyone can run in their browser of choice</a></li>
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<h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> org-mode content ready for conversion to html regarding <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emacs+for+dummies&t=ffsb&ia=web">emacs for dummies</a> as per request of <a href="https://intpforum.com/member.php?u=14422">JR<sub>IsP</sub></a> of <a href="https://intpforum.com/">INTPforum.org</a></h2>
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<h3 id="sec-1-1"><span class="section-number-3">1.1</span> <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emacs+for+dummies&t=ffsb&ia=web">emacs for dummies duckduckgo search</a></h3>
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<h3 id="sec-1-2"><span class="section-number-3">1.2</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emacs+tutorial+for+beginners">`emacs tutorial for beginers' hosted on/by Youtube</a></h3>
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<h3 id="sec-1-3"><span class="section-number-3">1.3</span> [[elisp:()][emacs lisp code for convering the progenitor org-mode file into html anyone can run in their browser of choice</h3>
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<div id="postamble" class="status">
<p class="date">Created: 2017-11-04 Sat 13:35</p>
<p class="creator"><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a> 25.3.1 (<a href="http://orgmode.org">Org</a> mode 8.2.10)</p>
<p class="validation"><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Validate</a></p>
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