From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elena Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to learn elisp ? Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 04:44:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3ec19b45-4660-4956-b9cd-76ce1e5f13d2@k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249476116 22739 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 12:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:41:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 14:41:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYfoS-0001pU-Ka for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYfoS-0002la-1X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:41:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.208.92.182 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249472657 9332 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2009 11:44:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.208.92.182; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 sic.int.lisit.it:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE3) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171600 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:66781 Archived-At: On 5 Ago, 10:08, waterloo wrote: > I am not a programmer. > I have used emacs for a period of time . > I have read `A Introduction to emacs lisp' and Orelly's Learn Gnu Emacs 3ed > . > > Now I am reading `Emacs Lisp Reference' , I feel it is harder and my > progress is slow. > > How to learn elisp ? Because I need to write or modify some functions. > > Do I need to read Emacs Lisp Reference wholely ? > > Thanks http://www.amazon.com/Writing-GNU-Emacs-Extensions-Glickstein/dp/1565922611 Afterwards, you can have a look to Emacs Lisp Reference, to know what is available to you.