From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Daniel R. Anderson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Customization - newbie's question Date: 31 Mar 2003 04:10:37 +0000 Organization: www.mathjunkies.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1049083837.325.4.camel@ny-chicagost2d-72.buf.adelphia.net> References: <3E87A603.8010702@networld.com> Reply-To: dan@mathjunkies.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049083964 31186 80.91.224.249 (31 Mar 2003 04:12:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:12:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 06:12:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18zqf4-00086s-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 06:12:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zqf8-0000Zs-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zqeJ-0008Fl-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zqe2-0007nC-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.246.36.112] (helo=torre.pghoster.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 18zqdr-00073P-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ny-chicagost2d-72.buf.adelphia.net (ny-chicagost2d-72.buf.adelphia.net [24.49.119.72]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by torre.pghoster.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2V4AuM27464; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:10:57 -0600 Original-To: Asene In-Reply-To: <3E87A603.8010702@networld.com> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2-3mdk X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8008 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8008 > I'm a newbie to Emacs. I tried to read the Emacs manual but it looks so > complicated to me. So asking here is a better way for me, I think. Check out O'reilly's /Learning GNU Emacs/. And, no, don't be a dunce and pay $30 + tax for it at Barnes and Noble -- go to www.alibris.com and search for it -- you'll pay about $7 (including shipping) for it. It'll cost less then the reams of paper which take up the emacs manual. And it's perfect for noobs. BTW, the 2nd edition covers emacs 19, not 21. The only discrepency I came across was when I typed M-x kill-buffer I was told by emacs in the minibuffer that "That command now works with C-x k". -Dan