From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs C tutorial Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:17:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <874mukaqyx.fsf@gmail.com> <83bnosyll4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414819225 1755 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2014 05:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 05:20:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 01 06:20:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XkR6p-0000fw-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 06:20:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkR6o-0001id-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:20:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="24129"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tduorNblSfWqW9ZUqnz5L" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iAjXotKcuXELBvqIAbbvxcovNs4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208389 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100664 Archived-At: In article , E Sabof wrote: > I was thinking something more ABC. Maybe more generic, like things you'd find > by searching for "emacs lisp basics". Or perhaps something like > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKtkEMUYGc, which shows from start to finish > how to achieve (perhaps not even very useful) results using very easy Emacs > Lisp. The difference is that almost every Emacs user is likely to make use of Emacs Lisp, to customize their .emacs. This became a little less necessary when M-x customize was created, but still most power Emacs users write some code for things that can't be done by setting variables. Very few Emacs users ever touch the C code. Emacs has been designed so that this mostly just contains basic primitives, not many high-level operations that would need customization. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***