From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Writing GNU Emacs Extensions
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:36:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lin1pejc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fwd9lpln.fsf@pank.eu
On Fri, Mar 16 2012, Rasmus wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 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 does anyone have this, and know how out of date it is?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…
>
> Do you know this one:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
>
> It is very nicely written, but it is an introduction to non-programmers,
> which might make it annoying for people with lots of experience.
>
> –Rasmus
Thanks -- that is a little more basic than I wanted. The book has a
lot of good practical advice for writing major modes and other larger
customizations, but it's probably too old to rely on.
--
GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-15 15:53 Writing GNU Emacs Extensions Eric Abrahamsen
2012-03-15 16:14 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-03-15 17:51 ` Rasmus
2012-03-16 0:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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