From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mirko" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Q: How did _YOU_ learn Elisp? Date: 1 Dec 2006 05:45:34 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1164980734.538868.264850@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <87vekvlxeq.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164984047 25710 80.91.229.2 (1 Dec 2006 14:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 01 15:40:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq9Yo-0006JN-Ae for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:40:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq9Yn-0003aL-VZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:40:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.218.238.20 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1164980743 10465 127.0.0.1 (1 Dec 2006 13:45:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:45:43 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87vekvlxeq.fsf@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.218.238.20; posting-account=zJ4b2Q0AAAB5wLprz3WGnkfVsRyuZtK0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143568 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39170 Archived-At: Passer By wrote: > just wondering. I use the O'Reilly book Writing GNU Emacs Extensions by Bob Glickstein. There is also an info manual on introduction with elisp which is excellent. The elisp manual itself is also quite good, although sometimes I wish it had more examples (but how can I complain if it is free?). When I get stuck I ask my question on this group, and almost always (except for my last post on grep, cygwin, and emacs) receive useful (sometimes highly compressed - but those make you think and look into the docs, and are thus also helpful) answers. I also read somewhere that learning lips helps the programming style in other languages. I think that may actually be correct, although the experiment is still in progress. Still, I like (e)lisp. Mirko