[Mac-emacs-users] elisp, was: a few more newbie questions then . . .

[Tom R. <Tom...@nc...>]

9/20/01 5:23 AM: ak...@cs... said:
>> If you haven't already, you can get the Emacs Lisp manual at:

>> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/elisp-manual-20-2.5.tar.gz

It, and a lot more useful stuff, is also available via HTTP at

http://www.emacslisp.org

See also

http://www.lispmeralda.org/

monk <bi...@br...> 22 Sep 2001 23:22:47 -0400
> i got that and looked it up, quite interesting indeed

> i'm wondering if anyone can comment on how the emacs help is
> generally?

I refer to it regularly. Note that the format, 'info', is widely used
by GNU and open-source software generally (e.g. I believe it's also
included with Darwin).

> would it be worthwhile for me to get one of the o'reilly emacs
> books?

To just _use_ emacs, I dunno. To get started coding elisp, I
personally found "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions"

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnuext/

quite useful.

HTH, Tom...@nc...