From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: learning Emacs Lisp Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:44 +0100 Message-ID: <87ljvre67v.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87k5bbjzvo.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226345040 6421 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2008 19:24:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:24:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 20:25:00 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 1KzcNV-00037l-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:24:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzcMM-0006Ou-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzcM4-0006Op-Ja for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KzcM3-0006Od-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37192 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzcM3-0006Oa-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:23:19 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35141 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KzcM2-00071X-7t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KzcLh-0005BI-Cp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:22:57 +0000 Original-Received: from p54af29e2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.41.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:22:57 +0000 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af29e2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:22:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af29e2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q0j8g5ku/OK6deMMGG6YsX7P/5o= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:59620 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: Hi Richard, > [...] but Xah Lee is an excellent resource with carefully argued > points and practical approach to, amongst other things, eLisp usage. This is a joke, isn't it? When learning a language it's better to take a look at polished code that uses this language's idioms. Xah's on a crusade against even the most basic stuff like correct indentation... The best resources for elisp are (info "(eintr)Top") and (info "(elisp)Top") together with the online help (`C-h ?'). All of these are included in emacs. And of course, you learn a language best by speaking/programming in it. But Drew already said that. Ah, and there's this (and other emacs related newsgroups) + #emacs on freenode where you can ask your questions. Bye, Tassilo -- A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five!