My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by greenSunglass » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 4:49 AM UTC

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Post by 098799 » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 6:02 AM UTC

Thanks for the submission. I was hoping it would be finished and didn't want to purchase an incomplete book, so it's helpful.

Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by mrspeaker » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 6:33 AM UTC

I think this book would be perfect for me - I have been using Emacs for quite a while, but never mastered elisp: I could never figure out how to structure things properly.

Looking at the book landing page, I think I would have passed on it because the Table of Contents make it look a bit like the book is just covering specific tasks (about rearranging sentences) rather than general tasks, like using best practices for creating packages.

It would be good to include the paragraph from your blog in the book landing page:

    In the first chapter, it tells you basically how to find Elisp functions doing things you need.
    In the second, longest chapter, it walks you through writing a complete, useful package, showcasing lots of Elisp features and good practices.
    In the third, last chapter, it hints at a few more advanced techniques – functional programming, lexical scoping and regular expressions.

This made me a lot more excited about the contents!

Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by ashton314 » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 6:36 AM UTC

This is very exciting and I will definitely be looking into this when I have a little more time! I’ve tried writing my own Emacs packages before, and I have never felt like I knew what I was doing. A guided tutorial like this is filling an important hole in the Emacs documentation I feel.

Also, I love the Brandon Sanderson quote. Absolutely excellent epic fantasy.

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Post by taeric » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 6:47 AM UTC

I've been happily reading the updates as they were released. Fell behind on the last one, actually. Very fun book that I think shines for showing some fun of using emacs. Highly recommended!

Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by zephyr9 » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

But did you write it in Emacs, using Texinfo? ;)

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Post by rStar » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 7:06 AM UTC

I felt like Superman the first time I hacked some emacs lisp. One of the most enjoyable programming experiences of my life. Thanks for this book.

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Post by marviio » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 7:44 AM UTC

zephyr9 wrote: post #6

But did you write it in Emacs, using Texinfo? ;)

I would bet it was written in orgmode.

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Post by kangaroopouch » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 8:37 AM UTC

Great to see resources being created for Emacs.

How does this compare to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/in... ? That's a great manual and available in Info format (popular amongst Emacs users).

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Post by kangaroopouch » Tue, Nov 09, 2021, 8:39 AM UTC

kangaroopouch wrote: post #9

Great to see resources being created for Emacs. How does this compare to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/in... ? That's a great manual and available in Info format (popular amongst Emacs users).

Ah it sits between the intro ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eintr.ht... ) and the reference manual.