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: How to learn elisp ? Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:31:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249494151 25155 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 17:42:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:42:31 +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 19:42:25 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 1MYkVL-0002Fy-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:42:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYkVK-0001HQ-QF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:42:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18hlAC2RhDDTG96ypIHIZbXmuB+yZCwz929XJJ2pE2QrgTgnBzlPXLXk+8arXw5AMSCW6ZdyPYqXlR+lmIL6I72bPS5r5LZOQC7fniP++wrKvpGqM4k7pCo730jxDTADn8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:38:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+W9i5EKhkVF2g7GL0xUse/TwWJ6Lx5C9M= Cancel-Lock: sha1:9RvN9FwPQCMpDSFP/PMpEK5uXYk= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Mail-Copies-To: nobody Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171628 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:66802 Archived-At: In article , waterloo wrote: > Emacs Lisp Reference is sufficient ? > > I feel Emacs Lisp Reference is harder and some sections is obscure to me . This is a reference manual, not a tutorial, it's not intended as a learning mechanism. IMHO, the best way to learn any programming language is to read and write code in the language. So look at existing Emacs packages for example code, and then start writing your own stuff. You'll learn best by doing. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***