From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Writing GNU Emacs Extensions Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:14:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4F62155E.4070400@dogan.se> References: <87y5r1q2rb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331828111 15486 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2012 16:15:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:15:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 15 17:15:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S8DKX-0000iX-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:15:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8DKX-0008WL-3p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56571) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8DKQ-0008UE-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8DK2-0001xW-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.6]:41514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S8DK2-0001x2-6O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-107-103.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.107.103]:60883 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S8DJs-0006r1-Hw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:14:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: <87y5r1q2rb.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-Originating-IP: 80.216.107.103 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1S8DJs-0006r1-Hw. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net 1S8DJs-0006r1-Hw 9d3fa8306a2082c68aa6678d93671b8e X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.6 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:84029 Archived-At: On 2012-03-15 16:53, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I recently got a copy of this book, but see it was written in 1997 -- > does anyone have this, and know how out of date it is? Mostly I'm > reading it to get a better grasp of elisp practices, so if the language > structure has changed significantly I won't bother… > I have never read the book, but if it's from 1997, it's pretty dated. I wouldn't really rely heavily on _any_ information in it.