in reply to Taking the emacs plunge

I suggest you pick up Learning GNU Emacs and work through the examples as you read it. There are other, slower and more painful ways to learn Emacs, but why bother? The book is great!

And when you're ready to learn some Elisp, check out Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. Don't just buy some random "Learning LISP" book and try to apply it to Emacs. That will only make you into one unhappy Lisp-hater.

-sam

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Re: Re: Taking the emacs plunge
by pdcawley (Hermit) on Apr 27, 2002 at 09:43 UTC
    Don't just buy some random "Learning LISP" book and try to apply it to Emacs. That will only make you into one unhappy Lisp-hater.
    That's because Emacs lisp is a particularly horrible incarnation of lisp, the lack of lexical scoping can really get on your nerves if you try and do any serious programming with it.
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