From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: cvelasquez.gnu@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs Reference Manual
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:56:17 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18289.28273.191796.977499@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525b1e09-2ccb-4370-b77d-bd48b9f9544f@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
> Hi, I'm looking for some kind of Emacs Reference Manual, based on the
> Official Emacs Manual (info) but only with the most important and
> basic summaries. Is there anything like that or should I write it
> myself?
The Emacs manual is a really a user manual, the reference manual being the
Emacs Lisp Reference manual. In my experience, a reference manual tries to be
exhaustive and covers details not often needed, not just provide basic
summaries.
If you are trying to get/provide a basic understanding of Emacs without the
effort of skip reading the Emacs Manual then the tutorial (`C-h t' or the top
item in Helpon the menu-bar) might provide what you are looking for
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-25 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-24 23:54 GNU Emacs Reference Manual cvelasquez.gnu
2007-12-25 19:07 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-25 20:56 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-12-25 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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