[OT] book advice

[OT] book advice

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi,
what do you think could be a good emacs book, if any, to suggest to a
friend that would start using emacs as a software development
environment and unix editor/shell replacement?

Thanks,
Luca

Re: [OT] book advice

[Rasmus]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> writes:

> Hi,
> what do you think could be a good emacs book, if any, to suggest to a
> friend that would start using emacs as a software development
> environment and unix editor/shell replacement?

How about:

    (info "Emacs Lisp Intro")

Or 
   
   (help-with-tutorial)

–Rasmus

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Re: [OT] book advice

[MBR]

Try http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html and 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/.

    Mark

On 9/16/2013 3:43 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi,
> what do you think could be a good emacs book, if any, to suggest to a
> friend that would start using emacs as a software development
> environment and unix editor/shell replacement?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
>
>
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Re: [OT] book advice

[MBR]

Also see, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596006488.do.

    Mark

On 9/17/2013 1:47 AM, MBR wrote:
> Try http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html and 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/.
>
>     Mark
>
> On 9/16/2013 3:43 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
>> Hi,
>> what do you think could be a good emacs book, if any, to suggest to a
>> friend that would start using emacs as a software development
>> environment and unix editor/shell replacement?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luca
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [OT] book advice

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:50 AM, MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> wrote:
> Also see, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596006488.do.
>

Uhm...I don't think that is covering "software development", rather
the basic of Emacs usage.

> Try http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html and
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/.
>

Of course, but same as above.

Thanks,
Luca

Re: [OT] book advice

[Ken Goldman]

I'd start with the embedded tutorial.  That should be enough for a 
simple Unix editor.

For software, I'd start by browsing the menus to get an idea of what 
emacs can do, then slowly convert to the key chords.

On 9/16/2013 3:43 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi,
> what do you think could be a good emacs book, if any, to suggest to a
> friend that would start using emacs as a software development
> environment and unix editor/shell replacement?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
>

RE: [OT] book advice

[Drew Adams]

> I'd start with the embedded tutorial.  That should be enough for a
> simple Unix editor.
> 
> For software, I'd start by browsing the menus to get an idea of what
> emacs can do, then slowly convert to the key chords.

+1 to starting with menus and then branching out to keyboard key
sequences.  Menus can help you explore Emacs features, and the menu
items also indicate the corresponding keys.

And LaCarte can help you explore the menus (using the keyboard),
especially when used with Icicles (substring matching etc.).

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LaCarte