From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:26:48 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <871vg52grr.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267393251 13313 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2010 21:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 22:40:45 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlqsX-0001n4-9H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:40:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlqsW-0006tz-PO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:40:44 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WZZoBEz6sV2znulDuFV5efs2pQk= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 297ae0f5.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=lC\eMMnHO5; :?c@>`BRL8:0aCb3`j`aPh9KCCQUG[m0]9 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177203 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:72240 Archived-At: Tim Visher writes: > Is it worth reading if I'm comfortable reading the Info manuals, > especially considering that the latest edition is 2 version old? I've > heard a number of people who are very comfortable with Info like Yegge > recommend it anyway. What do you all think? If your comfortable with the emacs manual, elisp reference, tutorial and learning emacs lisp, then I wouldn't bother with it. As you mentioned, it is quite old. On the other hand, if your still having some problems just coming to grips with how to approach problems using emacs, it might be worth a read. Its the sort of book I wouldn't buy, but I might borrow it from a friend or library. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au