Expectations from Prot's Emacs Coaching Sessions

Contents

Table of contents

• What’s happening?
• 1st session expectations
  • Install Emacs and what version
  • Vanilla Emacs or Doom Emacs?
  • Emacs built-in tutorial
• Following sessions expectations
• You’re a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn’t YouTube Ads enough?

What’s happening?

I talked to Prot and asked him if he wanted to do live Emacs coaching sessions with me. He agreed and he said he’d do it for free, but that’s not the intent of all this.

I have 2 goals:

1. Learn Emacs from someone with experience that can guide me through the process as a beginner
2. Get some new paying customers for Prot’s live coaching sessions once they see his way of teaching during the livestreams.

If you want to learn more about Prot’s coaching sessions, you can visit this link

1st session expectations

Install Emacs and what version

I do not intend to mirror my Neovim config on the Emacs side of things.

In the first session I want to talk about how to Install Emacs as a complete beginner, this may be a little bit difficult as my main OS is macOS and I think Prot uses Linux.

I already installed Emacs, the one I have installed is:

❯❯❯❯ brew list | grep emacs
emacs-plus@31

This created a lot confusion for me at the beginning because I didn’t know if to install the regular Emacs package or this emacs-plus package, and which version to install. Latest stable which I think is 29 at the moment or if to install version 31 and why.

Sacha Chua recommended this great article by Xenodium which seems really useful for macOS users. Version installed there is 30, so not sure if I should go with that one or not. Take a look at his article Xenodium awesome emacs on macOS

To be fair, I don’t expect Prot to teach me how to install Emacs on macOS, but to have a better idea on which version to install

Vanilla Emacs or Doom Emacs?

I don’t want Prot to sugar coat it for me, I want the truth. I want to learn Emacs the right way even if it’s going to take a bit more time.

I come from a Neovim background, so is Doom Emacs a good choice or not and why.

Emacs built-in tutorial

That’s what I’ve been doing on stream, learning the Emacs basics, like how to navigate with ctrl+p, ctrl+n and all that stuff. So should I do the whole thing or should I start with a few basics and go from there. Like a cheat-sheet or something?

Following sessions expectations

I still don’t know what I want, but I think that I want to use the life organizing abilities that Emacs provides through org.

In the Interview I did with Prot I saw how he organizes events in the calendar, how he sets reminders and notifications, and in the long run I’d like to have something similar.

I know this is not going to happen in a couple of sessions and it is going to take time, and I understand it and I’m fine with it.

I don’t want to rush the process.

I could ask AI to guide me through the process, and I would be up and running in a couple of hours with a guide included. But I just don’t trust it for this and I want to learn from a human with experience.

This can probably motivate others to pay for coaching sessions and keep this practice alive.

Do I expect to learn Lisp in just a few sessions? Brother, I don’t even know what Lisp is, but I’ve seen the code, so I know that it is going to take time and probably something I’ll have to figure out along the way when the time comes. So no, I don’t expect to learn Lisp in the first few sessions. Just what is essential and needed at the beginning.

You’re a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn’t YouTube Ads enough?

• I explain all of this in the “about me page” link below:
  • youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough
  • Above you’ll also find links to my discord, social media, etc