Re: How to get skills in elisp ?

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> [thanks for answering]
>>>
>>> On May 25, 10:17 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, take a look at the manual (in Info, `C-h i') called `Emacs Lisp
>>>> Introduction' in the Info menu. The manual title is actually "An Introduction to
>>>> Programming in Emacs Lisp". It's just what you're looking for.
>>>
>>> Ok, I did have a look to this but it starts by;
>>>
>>>  "This is an `Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp', for people
>>> who are not programmers."
>>>
>>> so since I'm a programmer (well I try to be ;) I just skiped the
>>> document.
>>
>> I recommend Xah Lee's tutorial. It's well written and easy to find
>> "snippets" to perform certain tasks. The just start adding some key
>> bindings etc to your editor yourself to perform certain tasks.
>>
>> http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp.html
>
> Beware of Xah Lee, he's a kook.  I didn't check that document, it
> might be worth something, but what he posts in general (eg. in c.l.l)
> is bullshit.

All to their own. I've seen he can be contentious but I found his
tutorial much more helpful than an rtfm in general.