From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5217d0e2-2455-4652-86fb-6587ff3fe1fa@e23g2000prf.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 1206866511 21167 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 08:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:41:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 10:42:22 2008 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 1Jft7O-00057A-8R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:42:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jft6m-0007zs-6v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:41:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.164.66.199 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1206863532 26406 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2008 07:52:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.164.66.199; posting-account=BmgeLAoAAAD1M9a8l4SdHemxlRwuAbRB User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157450 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:52820 Archived-At: On Mar 29, 6:23 pm, Christian Herenz wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a good book for getting started in emacs lisp? > > Greets, > Christian Actually, no, there isn't. Frustratingly enough, the only real way to learn it is to read the GNU books, or the 2 brief books on Emacs lisp that have some examples. Basically you just have to read lots of .el files and try to mess around with your own emacs, ask people on this list or others and move ahead. It sucks. But, ya know, if you're going to learn a language, in the end most of the learning comes from looking at other people's code. Bev