From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: re-search-forward in An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:03:49 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 at 1:56 AM, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> > This function is requently used for point movement, and "An
> > Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" should mention this point
> > movement behavior.
>
> "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" is an introduction.
> Once you've read it and you actually write code, you're expected to
> refer to the ELisp manual and the docstrings.- Stefan
Moving from "Introduction to Programming" to "ELisp Reference Manual"
is a climb too steep. Would help if there was an Abbreviated Guidebook
at an intermediate level. Then the task of moving from the Abbreviated
Guidebook to the Reference Manual would be reasonable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-26 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-24 2:17 re-search-forward in An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp Toshi Umehara
2024-03-26 1:46 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-03-26 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-03-26 14:03 ` Heime [this message]
2024-03-28 12:43 ` Toshi Umehara
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