On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> this is only partially Org-ode related, but I hope I'll be excused.
> A friend of mine uses Scrivener; he also does some simple
> JavaScript/jQuery programming and HTML/CSS editing.  He *is* interested
> in Emacs & Org-mode, but does not want to spend more than, say, 2 days
> on installing, configuring and learning basics of E&Om.  Are there any
> resources which might help?  I offered him some help with installing
> and teaching, but what could I use?  (Of course, the built-in tutorial
> and Sacha Chua's sketch-tutorials are great, but what else does there
> exist?


I found this to be very helpful -
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/tutorials/au-emacs1/index.html


> Also, is prelude or Emacs Starter Kit a good idea?  I
> understand this is opinion-based, but maybe someone has some experience
> *teaching* Emacs and Org-mode?)
>
>
​I recently had to start from scratch and I tried Emacs-Starter-Kit and
Prelude.  Prelude seemed to fit my needs much better and got me up and
running pretty quickly.

Thanks
-Manish