From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Visher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 13:50:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <752279.68732.qm@web86001.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <2atr57-lpt.ln1@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267469520 27507 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2010 18:52:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:52:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Richard Riley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 19:51:54 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmAif-0006Ky-SF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:51:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmAif-0002KA-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmAiE-0002Hn-24 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39673 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmAiB-0002H5-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmAi9-0007yX-RR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:34390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmAi9-0007yR-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:21 -0500 Original-Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so187022gye.0 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:51:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mIThrltYrXrV+lSPEfgf0pBXirwOtrBf7vQawX7aMuk=; b=PB1p34z/nNw+DiNw24xgRIdrN+s7Mc5pd5Y/9V5XAg8JAyrVqtbjYsHCvjkHjGXVoJ BsruLhVAtK4agJSIPXaLc6fbzn1M3vNMgzn9MO5QycHJtEslfgbI0t4lIyVswFZS63jq kDq2QZt43rZSabctqKRdnEsWxz12ISBRHSaQY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ooxGWkHm9tH8CFDrruFISbwId6nNrOS7fgOkDBHtdtbJ4rnM/fDh44PBYQt2eed5SF laDpsBxQxxo0coDEdVW95QYDQJCUMskgdR5gINaJFnEEuHCFjciqokAgzUxbf5RhPhyr LV6DVKcnEeA1gxQ+riE4eYZzmpqgsNThWG+fk= Original-Received: by 10.101.211.15 with SMTP id n15mr6860332anq.64.1267469477272; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:51:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2atr57-lpt.ln1@news.eternal-september.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:72276 Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Richard Riley wrot= e: > > Tim Visher writes: > >> Thanks for everyone's thoughts. =C2=A0It sounds like I probably shouldn'= t >> bother with it. > > I disagree with the other views. > > I found it well written, clear and nice to dip into. Its not a > manual. Thats not its job. It's a usage guide and a "novel" of Emacs > usage. > > When you find little snippets in there, which you wont necessarily by > browsing in the info pages IMO, you can then of course use the more > terse info manuals to get more detail. > > I think its a good book and worthy of your support. But then a lot of > the value in it is the fact its a real book and not written as a > reference manual. Thanks for the thoughts, Richard. I think I probably won't spring for it at the moment but that does give me a little better idea of what I'd find inside. --=20 In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail