From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: book recommendation Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:29:40 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: References: <42e292e2_1@news.iprimus.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122191863 3332 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2005 07:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:57:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 09:57:35 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwbMY-0000FX-7H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:57:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwbOm-0002wo-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 03:59:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.space.net!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Followup-To: comp.emacs Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1122191238 32100 193.149.49.134 (24 Jul 2005 07:47:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jul 2005 07:47:18 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132603 comp.emacs:89736 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28121 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28121 [Followup-to: comp.emacs] Baloff wrote on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 05:08:08 -0700: > Hello > 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. Hi, Baloff! This isn't really the place to ask this question. There is a policy in the GNU mailing lists and associated newsgroups that only free (as in speech) books and those licensed under the GFDL may be specifically recommended. This policy is, in general, respected by posters here. There are books on Emacs which don't fall into the above category. You would thus do better asking this question on the newsgroup comp.emacs, to which I have cross-posted this article. > thanks All the best! -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").