From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Florian Kaufmann" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Q: How did _YOU_ learn Elisp? Date: 1 Dec 2006 03:47:55 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1164973675.683428.92140@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> References: <87vekvlxeq.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164976846 30881 80.91.229.2 (1 Dec 2006 12:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 12:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 01 13:40:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq7gq-00013W-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gq7gp-0004CE-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.209.139.160 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1164973682 24912 127.0.0.1 (1 Dec 2006 11:48:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:48:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87vekvlxeq.fsf@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.209.139.160; posting-account=Z44m8A0AAADexMuhVGiPev7CXD9-sJX0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143566 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:39168 Archived-At: Hi I am also currently learning it. On http://xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html there is the "Programming in Emacs Lisp, an Introduction (emacs-lisp-intro)" and the "XEmacs Lisp Reference Manual (lispref)". I read parts of the first document. I also read the internal document a lot. C-h i and then browse to lispref. I try the examples which you will find there. Then I try to implement some little defuns I think which help me in my daily work, and so learn elisp by doing. Currently code from other people still looks quite complicated to me, but I am starting to understand it and can learn from it. And for learning in general, it always helps me to write resumes about what I learned. This way I can write down the information in a way which fits my thinking patterns, and I only write down the information that is important to me. Greetings Flo