From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: require basic stuff from specific packages Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <864m8671sy.fsf@student.uu.se> <86y45glxpy.fsf@student.uu.se> <86lh16i94u.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468418974 27792 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2016 14:09:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:09:34 +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 Jul 13 16:09:23 2016 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 1bNKqp-0005Mc-Oj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:09:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNKqk-0002B2-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNKGs-00073I-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNKGm-00052b-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNKGm-00052X-6i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bNKGj-00070b-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:32:05 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-108-26-223-56.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([108.26.223.56]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:32:05 +0200 Original-Received: from hmelman by pool-108-26-223-56.bstnma.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:32:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-108-26-223-56.bstnma.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WlYmCtO0M0oi6dzwVFRg3Cr3HDw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110806 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > However when it comes to tech details like this > such books aren't much good, and reference > manuals are only good if there is a good method > of looking up things in it. FWIW, I find the elisp manual to be pretty good and it's index pretty complete and easy to use via Emacs' info system (C-h i and then i in a manual). -- Howard