From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Writing GNU Emacs Extensions Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:36:55 +0800 Message-ID: <87lin1pejc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y5r1q2rb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fwd9lpln.fsf@pank.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331858236 27420 80.91.229.3 (16 Mar 2012 00:37:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:37:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 16 01:37:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8LAR-0003sB-7J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:37:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8LAQ-0001e7-Ke for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8LAL-0001ds-4E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8LAJ-0006t4-2w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8LAI-0006ra-Sb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8LAG-0003kJ-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.250.124.213 ([114.250.124.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.124.213 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:37:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.124.213 X-Pgp-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xC98BAE7B99D0D373 X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 8E19 28A9 2B51 0C67 565D DB34 C98B AE7B 99D0 D373 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:luGHr3cPAJ4ZKSBwPJ5jjJ2XM2M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84031 Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 16 2012, Rasmus wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I recently got a copy of this book, but see it was written in 1997 -- >> does anyone have this, and know how out of date it is? Mostly I'm >> reading it to get a better grasp of elisp practices, so if the >> language >> structure has changed significantly I won't bother… > > Do you know this one: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/ > > It is very nicely written, but it is an introduction to non-programmers, > which might make it annoying for people with lots of experience. > > –Rasmus Thanks -- that is a little more basic than I wanted. The book has a lot of good practical advice for writing major modes and other larger customizations, but it's probably too old to rely on. -- GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-03-06 on pellet