From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to learn elisp ? Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 06:06:52 -0700 Message-ID: <9E375F715FC34029BA81A64F3847C9B7@us.oracle.com> References: <907065090908050308n695eb056u8d962760efc62468@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249477959 28490 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 13:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:12:39 +0000 (UTC) To: "'waterloo'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 15:12:32 2009 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 1MYgHY-0008Cr-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:11:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYgHV-0003vk-UC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYgCx-0007pk-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYgCs-0007k0-0T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56039 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYgCr-0007jN-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:19227) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYgCq-0006cf-Eq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n75D7MKb024041 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:07:24 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt016.oracle.com (abhmt016.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n75D6tks011868; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:06:55 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.224.78) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:06:53 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcoVtNZ4whwq8gjnRQ2qbFwWa3FxlwAGJgkg In-Reply-To: <907065090908050308n695eb056u8d962760efc62468@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt016.oracle.com [141.146.116.25] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010201.4A7983EE.0091:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:66783 Archived-At: I am not a programmer. I have used emacs for a period of time . I have read `A Introduction to emacs lisp' and Orelly's Learn Gnu Emacs 3ed . Now I am reading `Emacs Lisp Reference' , I feel it is harder and my progress is slow. How to learn elisp ? Because I need to write or modify some functions. Do I need to read Emacs Lisp Reference wholely ? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearnEmacsLisp