From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] book advice Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:44:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381034734 31276 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2013 04:45:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 04:45:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 06 06:45:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgDn-0005LQ-NI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:45:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgDn-0002Nf-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgDQ-0002NQ-Tw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgDI-0003F9-Bn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgDI-0003Cu-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 00:45:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSgDG-00055w-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-17-109-106.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net ([75.17.109.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:45:02 +0200 Original-Received: from kgoldman by 75-17-109-106.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 06:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-17-109-106.lightspeed.nrwlct.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93860 Archived-At: I'd start with the embedded tutorial. That should be enough for a simple Unix editor. For software, I'd start by browsing the menus to get an idea of what emacs can do, then slowly convert to the key chords. On 9/16/2013 3:43 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote: > Hi, > what do you think could be a good emacs book, if any, to suggest to a > friend that would start using emacs as a software development > environment and unix editor/shell replacement? > > Thanks, > Luca > >