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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Charles C. Bennett, Jr. wrote: >There are some excellent resources for getting to know what's up with >this emacs thing: [snip] > As was mentioned, you can fire up GNU Info on most Linux boxes > and read yourself mad. > > To customize behavior, most 20.x Emacsen come configured with > an option customizer under the help menu. Happy Navigating! > > If you have RedHat there's a FAQ in /usr/doc/emacs<version>. > There's a pile of stuff in /usr/share/emacs/<version>/etc > that's at least entertaining. Your distro maker may have dropped > it into someplace else. > > The FSF GNU Emacs Manual: > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/Manuals/emacs/index.html > The FSF GNU Emacs Lisp Intro > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/Manuals/emacs-lisp-intro/index.html > The FSF GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/Manuals/elisp/index.html > ORA has "Learning GNU Emacs" (gnu-book) and "Writing GNU Emacs > Extensions" (giraffe-book), both very well done. The giraffe > book concludes with the development of "crossword-puzzle-mode". [snip] Also, the comp.emacs Usenet newsgroup -- there are experts there who know the ins and outs: from configuration, emacs vs. xemacs, source code, etc.. Level of discussion tends to be mature; volume isn't very high, but questions are generally answered quickly (my first post there was answered by a guy from Germany about 10 minutes after I posted! :). - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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