From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Barton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs newbie Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:37:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4E11D033.8080704@wilkesley.net> References: Reply-To: lists@manor-farm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309790383 15884 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2011 14:39:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:39:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 04 16:39:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkJH-00075U-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkJH-0000YA-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkHR-0000Xl-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkHQ-0000NA-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:37:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ian-barton.com ([109.74.196.44]:59162 helo=li40-130.members.linode.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QdkHP-0000Mg-QY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:37:43 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (mail.wilkesley.org [127.0.0.1]) by li40-130.members.linode.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D11515A046 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:37:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at li40-130.members.linode.com Original-Received: from li40-130.members.linode.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.manor-farm.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p0vyiE1MKo5g for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.133] (unknown [217.146.125.41]) (Authenticated sender: ian@manor-farm.org) by li40-130.members.linode.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC7ED15A03A for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:37:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 109.74.196.44 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:81487 Archived-At: On 04/07/11 11:05, C K Kashyap wrote: > Hi, > I am a long time VI user. I have decided to switch to emacs for two > reasons - > 1. I've become a fan of functional programming and would like to be able > to use emacs lisp > 2. I'm trying to learn lift web framework - was impressed with emacs > looking at David Pollac and few other few other folks > > I've gone through the tutorial. I was wondering if there is a > recommended tutorial/writeup that I can go over? > The one built into Emacs itself is good (C-h t in Emacs). I also like the O'Reilly book, which has quite a big section on lisp. Ian.