Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

[Christian Herenz]

Hi,

Is there a good book for getting started in emacs lisp?

Greets,
Christian

Re: Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

[Joost Diepenmaat]

Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a good book for getting started in emacs lisp?

Personally I found the emacs lisp info pages combined with the
"practical common lisp" book to be a pretty good combination:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ (free online, but the tree version is
worth it).

emacs lisp isn't exactly common lisp, but it's close enough for most
purposes.

-- 
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

Re: Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

[bev]

On Mar 29, 6:23 pm, Christian Herenz <her...@physik.hu-berlin.de>
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

Re: Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

[Tim X]

Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a good book for getting started in emacs lisp?
>
> Greets,
> Christian

In emacs 22.1 and later, there is an info file which is an introduction
to programming in emacs lisp written by Robert J. Chassell. It is also
available on the GNU website.  

There is also an Oreilly book, but I don't think there is much in it
that isn't also covered in the emacs lisp intro and the O'Reilly book
probably isn't as up-to-date.

Tim

-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> Is there a good book for getting started in emacs lisp?

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Programming-Emacs-Lisp/dp/1882114566

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Re: Book on Programming in Emacs Lisp?

[Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo]

Joost Diepenmaat em gnu.emacs.help escreveu:

> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ (free online, but the tree version is
> worth it).


yeah, plus this book:

http://www.gnu.org/doc/intro-elisp-2.5.html