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For experts, a comprehensive manual is useful. For beginners, or people who occasionally dabble in elisp for some light customisation work, a whole treatise in
by krmboya 4y ago
For experts, a comprehensive manual is useful. For beginners, or people who occasionally dabble in elisp for some light customisation work, a whole treatise in elisp programming is probably an overkill
- gjadi 4y agoWell, that's why there is several documents: C-h i * Elisp: (elisp). The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. * Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr). A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp * Emacs: (emacs). The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs FAQ: (efaq). Frequently Asked Questions about Emacs. And that's not even looking at specialized documentation such as the one for Gnus, for Widget, for Dired-X, for Ediff, ... I agree with parent, Emacs documentation is some of the best I know and easily searchable.
- bhrgunatha 4y agoThe introspection via all the commands bound to C-h <key/s> is a major thing I miss from any other system. That includes the ability to view and debug the source code - including the base level commands written in C if you've configured it to do so. Plus, it's all right there _in emacs_ with all its facilities and your customisations while you're using it.
- veltas 4y agoIt's not about experts vs. beginners. Some people just don't like that style of documentation.