Elisp is a really poor language compared to almost anything else, more work should be done to allow Emacs to be configured in other languages.
My Emacs Lisp book is finished
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#12Your website is not responsive
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#13I 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 fo…
> I have been using Emacs for quite a while, but never mastered elisp
You are not alone in that boat :-)
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#14as author calls it "intermediate-level book", what would be a more suitable resource for an elisp beginner?
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#15Congratulations!
As a curiosity, how did you set the page width?
I find it a bit wide, making it difficult to read.
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#16Elisp is a really poor language compared to almost anything else, more work should be done to allow Emacs to be configured in other languages.
Dude, I think you might have a problem
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#17as author calls it "intermediate-level book", what would be a more suitable resource for an elisp beginner?
I'm on mobile but check the sample, the author mentions an introductory resource.
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#18as author calls it "intermediate-level book", what would be a more suitable resource for an elisp beginner?
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#19Elisp is a really poor language compared to almost anything else, more work should be done to allow Emacs to be configured in other languages.
Maybe if you would elaborate on why you think that, you would not be down voted so much. Having said that, if you don't like it maybe you should find an editor that suits you more?
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#20But did you write it in Emacs, using Texinfo? ;)
I would bet it was written in orgmode.
Intro of the book confirms: “It is written in Org-mode, first made by Carsten Dominik and then developed by many other people. Diego Zamboni wrote the Org exporter to convert Org-mode syntax to Markua, expected by Leanpub.”