From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 3 10:10: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D3A15578 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 10:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA87807; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 17:47:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA06758; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:19:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:19:37 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Dutch Collins Cc: umbclinux@lists.umbc.edu, Freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommend a favorite emacs book Message-ID: <19990903151937.H99849@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <37CF1163.99B1BA89@charm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37CF1163.99B1BA89@charm.net>; from Dutch Collins on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:08:03PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:08:03PM -0400, Dutch Collins wrote: > Anyone have a favorite emacs book they would like to recommend. emacs > 20.4 is not the same thing I used (PDP-11/45) before. It is not killing > me right now, but some of the online docs are still fighting for the chance. > I do have keystroke books but no advanced topics; mail and customization. If you're just trying to navigate around emacs, and you don't want to program it, I can recommend xemacs. It's got menus (actually, now I think about it, I hear that newer emacs has as well, but it's been ages since I tried it) so that you don't need to spend lots of time learning what the basic commands are, you can just pick them from the menu. It also has a 'teach' mode, where it shows you the name of the function that it ran in response to your menu choice, so you can learn the functions as you go. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message