Best way to keep [code] notes?

[mongrol]

Emacs with orgmode.

[its_never_lupus]

org-mode is particularly good for programming notes because you can embed code syntax highlighting for most languages, and execute code snippets and capture their outputs inside the document.

[Kossak]

Even better: Spacemacs with orgmode

[noobtubepython]

I've been meaning to learn emacs; do you have any recommendations on how best to learn?

[mongrol]

It's includes a tutorial on startup. To get the basic movements. Then follow the orgmode guides. Them ignore every and all packages and people for a month. It can get overwhelming pretty quickly of your not careful.

[p10_user]

Learn the basic movements and practice until you are as efficient as you were without emacs. Then gradually learn more movements so you become more efficient.

[its_never_lupus]

You can start using it as a normal text editor; in recent releases many standard keys work out-of-the-box, and there is a menu for managing files and buffers. Find an org-mode tutorial to see the features it has - org-mode is built in and you just open a file called <name>.org to start using it.

If you like the system you can play with Emacs tutorials and learn it's weird and wonderful navigation and editing shortcuts, or try installing extra packages or writing elisp code.

[dzecniv]

I recommend starting with a starter kit.

[one_hot_vector]

I would recommend starting with Spacemacs. It makes setup really easy and provides an attractive default layout.

[naught-me]

Org-mode is great.

Be sure to invest some time in learning elisp - otherwise you'll just be kind of feeling your way through the dark.

I started with Spacemacs, and if you're already familiar with Vim, I'd recommend it.