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Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by codetrotter »

sokoloff wrote: post #20
marviio wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.”

For anyone else curious about Markua: https://leanpub.com/markua/read

Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by NeutralForest »

deworms wrote: post #11

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.

Emacs and Elisp are too intertwined at this point. This interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKegZI9vWUU of the creator of Doom Emacs talks about this exact problem.

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Post by saint_angels »

phyrex wrote: post #18
saint_angels wrote: post #14

as author calls it "intermediate-level book", what would be a more suitable resource for an elisp beginner?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/in...

thanks! I thought whole gnu manual is a dry reference, but linked intro looks exactly what I was looking for! https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Wh...

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Post by Koshkin »

shidima wrote: post #19
deworms wrote: post #11

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.

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?

To be fair, the parent is not talking about the editor but rather its configuration language. Indeed, there have been attempts to replace elisp with other languages, such as Scheme (guile) and Common Lisp.

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Post by rvdginste »

bjarneh wrote: post #13
mrspeaker wrote: post #3

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 fo…

> I have been using Emacs for quite a while, but never mastered elisp You are not alone in that boat :-)

As a developer, I find it a bit embarassing that I started using Emacs in 2000, that at some point I even read my email with it, and that I never took the time to really learn emacs-lisp. Still, some day I will. This book might help me. :)

Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by rvdginste »

signa11 wrote: post #21

i have used "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" available here: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/writing-gnu-emacs/97814... from a long time past for elisp programming. mentioning it here in the hope that it is is useful to others as well...

Since that book is over 20 years old, is it still relevant and useful?

Re: My Emacs Lisp book is finished

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Post by jhbadger »

rvdginste wrote: post #29
signa11 wrote: post #21

i have used "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" available here: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/writing-gnu-emacs/97814... from a long time past for elisp programming. mentioning it here in the hope that it is is useful to others as well...

Since that book is over 20 years old, is it still relevant and useful?

Pretty much, yes. I'm sure there's a few things that have changed, and a newer book is welcome, but Emacs hasn't really changed much in 30 years.
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