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Emacs has plenty of resources if you know Lisp - if you don't all it has is the reference manuals. I learnt to programme from IBM 360 Systems Manuals, and guess
by gordonguthrie 16y ago
Emacs has plenty of resources if you know Lisp - if you don't all it has is the reference manuals. I learnt to programme from IBM 360 Systems Manuals, and guess what, learning from reference manuals was shite then and is shite now.
I want to write a book that will get you to where you can profitably read the manuals.
- jrockway 16y agoNah, the elisp intro is quite conversational and starts with "this is a list". The "Elisp" info page is a bit of a reference manual, but it is all well-organized and readable cover-to-cover. I learned Emacs Lisp this way and have a couple of the more popular Elisp projects on github, so the manual must have done something right :)