Re: O'Reilly's Learning GNU Emacs

[Tim Visher]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Thanks for everyone's thoughts.  It sounds like I probably shouldn't
>> bother with it.
>
> I disagree with the other views.
>
> I found it well written, clear and nice to dip into. Its not a
> manual. Thats not its job. It's a usage guide and a "novel" of Emacs
> usage.
>
> When you find little snippets in there, which you wont necessarily by
> browsing in the info pages IMO, you can then of course use the more
> terse info manuals to get more detail.
>
> I think its a good book and worthy of your support. But then a lot of
> the value in it is the fact its a real book and not written as a
> reference manual.

Thanks for the thoughts, Richard.  I think I probably won't spring for
it at the moment but that does give me a little better idea of what
I'd find inside.

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