From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "A.Politz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to learn elisp ? Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2eaaaff2-16d2-48ab-8578-4d20b4174f9f@j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> References: <907065090908050656nb880289la5d41077150d0823@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249490452 12850 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 16:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 18:40:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYjXf-0000GC-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:40:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46299 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYjXe-0005SR-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:40:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.59.214.78 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249487366 30701 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2009 15:49:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:49:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j32g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.59.214.78; posting-account=Cb0eCQoAAADOp8Qt5mU0s83Gs6qJzY70 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061208 Iceweasel/3.0.9 (Debian-3.0.9-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171621 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:66796 Archived-At: On Aug 5, 4:06=A0pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > It's wrong thinking that want study Emacs in short time. > > Explore emacs is looooooooooooooong way...... :) > Yes emacs, but not elisp. The elisp-manual can be approximately split in 2 parts. The first is about elisp, the second about how emacs uses elisp for certain tasks. I would recommend reading the first couple chapters including `Functions', while skipping `Hash Tables'. The rest as needed for your future concrete goals. -ap