From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Stewart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to learn elisp ? Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:24:22 +0800 Message-ID: <87ocqu4i6x.fsf@ubuntu.domain> References: <907065090908050308n695eb056u8d962760efc62468@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249474332 17201 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 12:12:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:12:12 +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 14:12:05 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 1MYfLe-0006h2-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:12:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYfLc-0008Rp-PK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYfIK-00066o-VU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYfIF-000649-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46630 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYfIE-00063u-9X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47909 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYfID-0007NO-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MYfIB-00057d-7I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:08:28 +0000 Original-Received: from 121.13.179.211 ([121.13.179.211]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:08:27 +0000 Original-Received: from lazycat.manatee by 121.13.179.211 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:08:27 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 121.13.179.211 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8ocLuyfODRt1r5bg/KEuXclqbWw= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66779 Archived-At: waterloo writes: > I am not a programmer. > I have used emacs for a period of time . > I have read `A Introduction to emacs lisp' and Orelly's Learn Gnu Emacs 3ed . > > Now I am reading `Emacs Lisp Reference' , I feel it is harder and my progress is slow. > > How to learn elisp ? Because I need to write or modify some functions. > > Do I need to read Emacs Lisp Reference wholely ? Yes, you need, if you want know very detail of Emacs. -- Andy