From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any good stuff for emacs study ? Date: 13 May 2006 10:02:26 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <87ody2hjvx.fsf@localhost.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147480844 15151 80.91.229.2 (13 May 2006 00:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 00:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 13 02:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeiBK-0000hv-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 May 2006 02:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeiBK-0006GH-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 May 2006 20:40:30 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.77.214 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1147478545 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 17550 203.134.67.67:3375 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp-out.svc.us.xo.net!nntp1-feeder.SJ.svc.us.xo.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed-3001.bay.webtv.net!news.moat.net!nntp.waia.asn.au!202.72.130.18.MISMATCH!quokka.wn.com.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139383 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35006 Archived-At: Bo Yang writes: > I want to use emacs as my first editor because I heard that it is very > flexible > and can be used to edit many lauguage as well as be used as mail client and > many many others . > But the manual at gnu is too long to read completely as a tutorial , and > is there > any good book or manual to begin with ? > > Thanks in advance ! I was in your position not too long ago, use Learning GNU Emacs by Debra Cameron, James Elliott, "O'Reilly ISBN 0596006489" third edition.