On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Ramkumar R <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Emacs Lisp is a slow and featureless language. Slow, yes. 'Featureless' would be a bit extreme. > You will get no support or documentation for > this language whatsoever apart from the info pages distributed with > Emacs. Not true. The emacs community is extremely helpful gnu.emacs.help is one of the nicest usenet newsgroups one is likely to find. There's plenty of literature at various levels. - The info pages that come with Emacs are *meant* the definitive reference material for the language. It is available as a book too. It's not insubstantial documentation by any stretch of imagination. - There is a 'elisp tutorial' that comes with Emacs - that is for complete newbies to elisp, again available as a book - There's a book 'Writing Emacs Extensions' by Bob Glickstein, which I suspect was not very popular because the real target audience for that book are pretty well served by the elisp reference anyway. I have not read it, fwiw. - Then there is my own small attempt to introduce elisp to programmers, that I have presented twice at ilugc meets. Available at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~karra/tutorial/ > People on #lisp will throw you out and people on #emacs won't > teach you how to write code. You should try gnu.emacs.help There are newbies trying to edit basic text files to language experts and emacs developers on that newsgroup. -Karra _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
