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All emacs info pages are in a if I remember emacs-common-nondfsg file 
and once those are installed if you know how to use info you ought to be 
up and running pretty quickly.

On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 07:49:33
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: productivity tips
> Resent-Date: Sun,  1 Jan 2017 12:49:50 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 05:57:03AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 1/1/2017 5:45 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 01:02:41AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>>> emacs has org-mode built-in and org-mode is probably one of the
>>>> older mind mappers available for download.
>>>
>>> +1 on org mode [...]
>
>> That description is intriguing. Are there HOWTO's oriented to a
>> newbie who has never seen emacs?
>> TIA
>
> Getting started on Emacs can be pretty daunting, to be honest.
> It pays off big time, IMHO. One of the problems is that it's
> a very old program with a strong community and it has developed
> a 30-year old culture which is difficult to penetrate.
>
> It displays one of those "documentation problems": in spite of
> being thoroughly documented down to tech function's source code,
> including full text search, all accessible from inside the edior,
> I had a tough time to "get into" the culture to be able to make
> use of it.
>
> I'd recommend just installing your distro's emacs (Debian's is
> pretty good, albeit not cutting edge) and working through the
> tutorial (available through the Help menu), keeping a tab on
> some idiosyncracies (e.g. the tutorial tries to nudge you into
> using cursor -- called "point" in Emacs jargon -- movement
> comands like control-n, control-p although the arrow keys work
> perfectly). Just ask away when stuck.
>
> For some pointers on Org-mode and specifically on org-babel:
>
> http://orgmode.org/
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgMode
> http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
>
> and of course, the inimitable Sacha Chua's blog
>
> http://sachachua.com/blog/category/geek/emacs/org/
>
> Take a bit of patience wth you. It's worth it.
>
> Enjoy the ride
> - -- tom?s
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