emacs Tutorial: Beating the Learning Curve - From Zero to Lightspeed

At our institute I gave an ambitious presentation today which showcased much of my daily work flow in emacs. People have titled it the "emacs lightshow" due to the speed of flashing and changing lights on my screens. Of course, the idea is to show people what emacs can do and at the same time get them to try it. Emacs is different from other editors in that it is a life operating system that is infinitely complex, is constantly extended, and adapts to what you need.

For this presentation I made an emacs tutorial. There are many emacs tutorials online, and they are probably better than this one. However, I focused on listing something like the top 100 key command sequences that you need in real day-to-day editing life, instead of the most flashy features. This makes this tutorial something that you can print out, and go through step-by-step once to try everything out; and then start over and learn the most important keys from the top.

The emacs tutorial is available as a PDF: emacs Tutorial - Beating the Learning Curve - From Zero to Lightspeed.pdf

or available as the org-mode source file: emacs Tutorial - Beating the Learning Curve - From Zero to Lightspeed.org

and in my github .emacs.d repo: https://github.com/bingmann/dot-emacs.git