I like the approach (two birds with one stone) but the first bitecast has left me the impression that I've learnt some emacs lisp and very little emacs. Since total newbies are supposed to be the audience of this first bitecast, I'll give my opinion as a total newbie...
From the video, here are the features of emacs that I've learnt by just watching:
1. Emacs will read your environment variables. You can override them as you'd expect.
2. You can override your HOME directory by setting the environment variable to any path. From my point of view, it seems like too much work - will emacs use your current working directory? Seems like it doesn't.
3. C-x C-e evaluates.
Here's what I would have liked to learn, that I didn't:
1. What shortcuts is the author using throughout the video?
2. Basic emacs functionality: moving around, opening / closing files, saving files... Granted I know some movement shortcuts because they're commonly used in other contexts (C-a / C-e for begin/end of line, C-f, C-b to move cursor forward/back, etc), there are many other tips we could use as newbies.
3. Does emacs only evaluate lisp? Will it evaluate Python? Javascript?
4. Although I know I can extend functionality, I'd love to learn about the ecosystem (plugins or modules, what tools, if any, exist for plugin management, etc).
From the video, here are the features of emacs that I've learnt by just watching:
1. Emacs will read your environment variables. You can override them as you'd expect.
2. You can override your HOME directory by setting the environment variable to any path. From my point of view, it seems like too much work - will emacs use your current working directory? Seems like it doesn't.
3. C-x C-e evaluates.
Here's what I would have liked to learn, that I didn't:
1. What shortcuts is the author using throughout the video?
2. Basic emacs functionality: moving around, opening / closing files, saving files... Granted I know some movement shortcuts because they're commonly used in other contexts (C-a / C-e for begin/end of line, C-f, C-b to move cursor forward/back, etc), there are many other tips we could use as newbies.
3. Does emacs only evaluate lisp? Will it evaluate Python? Javascript?
4. Although I know I can extend functionality, I'd love to learn about the ecosystem (plugins or modules, what tools, if any, exist for plugin management, etc).