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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: book recommendation
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:02:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oe7sjbfo.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 42e292e2_1@news.iprimus.com.au

> I know there is a list of emcas books on one of the emacs related site,
> I came across it the other day, but nothing better than
> a user recommendation.
> I am not a "very" beginner, but a beginner in many ways, what is a good user
> guide and a reference to keep in my library.

My I humbly suggest "The Emacs Manual", published by the FSF (you can order
it online at www.fsf.org), and whose online version is bundled with
every Emacs (reachable through C-h i)?


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-21  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-24 12:08 book recommendation Baloff
2005-07-23 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2005-07-23 22:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-07-23 23:01 ` Zephyre
2005-08-21  2:02 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-28 22:07 Book recommendation Hadron Quark
2006-08-28 22:58 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-08-28 23:11 ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.5862.1156806504.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-29  3:13   ` Hadron Quark
2006-08-29 19:57 ` Kevin Rodgers

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