* Elisp Primer?
@ 2011-03-11 19:26 Matthew Sauer
2011-03-11 19:35 ` John Hendy
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From: Matthew Sauer @ 2011-03-11 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I am wanting to learn about/have a reference guide for elisp. I am a huge
fan of the O'Reilly books for the other languages I have worked with but I
was wondering if someone knew of an online repository (possibly like Worg)
that might be available to pull onto my system that I could read right in
emacs.
Thanks,
Matt
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2011-03-11 19:26 Elisp Primer? Matthew Sauer
@ 2011-03-11 19:35 ` John Hendy
2011-03-11 20:11 ` brian powell
2011-03-11 20:41 ` Nick Dokos
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From: John Hendy @ 2011-03-11 19:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Sauer; +Cc: Org Mode Mailing List
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Sauer
<improv.philosophy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wanting to learn about/have a reference guide for elisp. I am a huge
> fan of the O'Reilly books for the other languages I have worked with but I
> was wondering if someone knew of an online repository (possibly like Worg)
> that might be available to pull onto my system that I could read right in
> emacs.
Completely out of my element, but in searching I found:
- references on this from the EmacsWiki:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearnEmacsLisp
- an intro to emacs lisp programming in several formats:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
I'd be interested in this as well; perhaps others will have better
suggestions or can share how they "got into" it.
Best regards,
John
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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* Re: Elisp Primer?
2011-03-11 19:26 Elisp Primer? Matthew Sauer
2011-03-11 19:35 ` John Hendy
@ 2011-03-11 20:11 ` brian powell
2011-03-11 20:41 ` Nick Dokos
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From: brian powell @ 2011-03-11 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Sauer; +Cc: Org Mode Mailing List
*I strongly agree with John Hendy: Robert Chassel's "An Introduction
to Programming in Emacs Lisp":
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
--should be mastered first (it should be the first book @everyone@ reads.)
*O'Reilly's "Safari" has online books for $20/month you can put 10
books on your online "bookshelf"--you can put Learning EMACS and/or
EMACS Extensions on your bookshelf and then download the .pdf and use
DOCVIEW to read in EMACS and/or use the TEXINFO file and read it in
EMACS and/or put your cursor on something you don't understand and
type "Mx man" and/or do pdf2txt on the .pdf and put that into emacs:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565922617/
**Could do "wget -m -np
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/index.html"
and put the reference manual on you're hard-drive--then use "Mx dired"
or a browser to browse it.
*Remember also, you can extend ELISP with COMMON LISP using the "cl" package:
"Notably, the "cl" package implements a fairly large subset of Common Lisp."
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp)
--then use some COMMOM LISP:
http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/emacs-ide.html
*In grad school I downloaded the reference at:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm
---made a mirror of the entire doc tree on my hard-drive---it worked
as a great reference in alpha order (for common lisp--but you can
always extend elisp if you see something you like):
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/X_Master.htm
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Sauer
<improv.philosophy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am wanting to learn about/have a reference guide for elisp. I am a huge fan of the O'Reilly books for the other languages I have worked with but I was wondering if someone knew of an online repository (possibly like Worg) that might be available to pull onto my system that I could read right in emacs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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* Re: Elisp Primer?
2011-03-11 19:26 Elisp Primer? Matthew Sauer
2011-03-11 19:35 ` John Hendy
2011-03-11 20:11 ` brian powell
@ 2011-03-11 20:41 ` Nick Dokos
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From: Nick Dokos @ 2011-03-11 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthew Sauer; +Cc: nicholas.dokos, Org Mode Mailing List
Matthew Sauer <improv.philosophy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wanting to learn about/have a reference guide for elisp. I am a huge
> fan of the O'Reilly books for the other languages I have worked with but I
> was wondering if someone knew of an online repository (possibly like Worg)
> that might be available to pull onto my system that I could read right in
> emacs.
>
If you have emacs, you should already have the "Emacs Lisp Intro" manual
and the "Elisp Reference" manual. They should be as close as C-h i.
If you build your own emacs, they are certainly there. If you depend on
a distro to provide your emacs, they may have decided to split things up
and you might have to install some emacs-doc package.
Or you can read them online at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
and
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/index.html
Nick
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