From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pawel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any good stuff for emacs study ? Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 11:53:15 +0200 Message-ID: <17508.23307.43906.959358@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <87r72zvefn.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147427616 4377 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2006 09:53:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 12 11:53:32 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 1FeUKs-0006NJ-Fp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 11:53:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeUKr-0002l0-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 05:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeUKf-0002ju-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 05:53:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FeUKb-0002j3-4d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 05:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeUKa-0002iw-Tq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 05:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.77.101.1] (helo=smtp.wp.pl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FeUMI-0002Bu-KI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 05:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: (wp-smtpd smtp.wp.pl 24966 invoked from network); 12 May 2006 11:53:05 +0200 Original-Received: from jupiter.adlex.com (HELO ) (null7@[157.25.157.162]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp.wp.pl (WP-SMTPD) with SMTP for ; 12 May 2006 11:53:05 +0200 Original-To: Bastien Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87r72zvefn.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk> X-MAILER: KMail/1.7.1 X-WP-AV: skaner antywirusowy poczty Wirtualnej Polski S. A. X-WP-SPAM: NO AS1=NO(Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1) AS2=NO(0.978145) AS3=NO AS4=NO 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:34994 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > Bo Yang writes: > > > I want to use emacs as my first editor because I heard that it is very > > flexible and can be used to edit many lauguage as well as be used as > > mail client and many many others . But the manual at gnu is too long to > > read completely as a tutorial , and is there any good book or manual to > > begin with ? > > Don't miss this huge ressource : > > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > Then, if You play a while with it, try elisp, which is a language emacs was written in. There is great manual (very easy to understand) for that: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_node/index.html I read it and I must say that it opens even larger door to that what is meant by "flexible".