Just dumping a few links:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ contains great pointers to all kinds of docs, extensions, customizations and other stuff that emacs users found useful. Really the first place to look. For a start, take a look at the emacsnewbie and programming categories.

Lispcast recently did a nice article on improving your emacs skills

the reference card is helpful too (links to a generated pdf. your emacs bundle should contain the at least the tex source if you want to generate one yourself).

Also, comp.emacs is a useful usenet group.

Also, will Emacs answer my needs for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Perl, and Python coding? Especially when, for example, HTML and CSS, or PHP and HTML are mixed in a file?
Yes it will, but you will need to install at least a few of those language modes yourself, since current emacs doesn't come with, for example, a javascript mode (I've been informed that this is probably going to change). Again, see the emacswiki. As for combining them, mmm-mode is probably the most used mode for this problem, and it works fine.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: Getting into Emacs? by Joost
in thread Getting into Emacs? by tmallen

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