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1/5 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595100333/002-0507756-4896855 I didn't know Richard Stallman publishes books for profit. Anyway, is this book worth getting? \_ We use freebsd here! We don't need no stinking GNU stuff! we have our own stuff! \_ well think about this, Do you think it's good to read while taking a nice juicy shit? \_ It's just the manual that comes with it printed out & formatted nicely - the FSF has been doing this for years as a fundraiser. \_ Buy it from http://www.fsf.org/order/order.html if you want to make a token gesture of support of the GNU Project. It's kind of ironic that it's being sold at Amazon, with rms's attitude towards patents... |
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| www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595100333/002-0507756-4896855 Is there an item you'd recommend instead of or in addition to this one? There are many Emacs editors, all sharing common principles of organization. This is primarily a reference manual, but can also be used as a primer. For complete beginners, it is a good idea to start with the on-line, learn-by-doing tutorial, before reading this manual. This way you can learn Emacs by using Emacs on a specially designed file which describes commands, tells you when to try them, and then explains the results you see. Each book contains the complete, unabridged text of the original document. The on-demand publishing process gives you the actual text of the online document in a convenient, inexpensive, easy-to-use format. All Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: 2 out of 5 stars 44 Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. The tool is justly famous and the manual is one of the best written and best organized books I'd ever seen. I've had problems at times figuring out how Emacs works, but when I came across an older edition of this book at a used bookstore, I realized that I simply had to have this book. I've found almost everything I wanted to know from this book and gotten a sense of how everything works. The manual also leaves me with a sense of how wonderfully extensible and versatile the program is. The book contains a glossary, a key index, a command and function index and a concept index. Keeping true to the GNU philosophy, Stallman makes the book (as well as a LISP reference guide) available for free at the gnu site. So the good news is that the book is expertly written and organized. Also, because emacs and xemacs have followed different development paths, Stallman's book doesn't cover the NT-based xemacs implementation. Love or hate xemacs, you have to appreciate the attempt at a GUI, especially when it comes to configuring the program. The package update functionality of Xemacs, could use better documentation as well. In summary: a masterpiece of documentation, but the manual is sorely in need of a section discussing major mode and emacs. Yes No 6 of 10 people found the following review helpful: 1 out of 5 stars Almost useless as a reference, June 28, 2001 Reviewer: 46 Dale Wyttenbach (see more about me) from New Brighton, MN USA I've had this book for several months now and it has been almost completely worthless as a reference because THERE IS NO INDEX. I realize that the author marches to the beat of a different drummer, but COME ON, provide an index! It explains advanced features, including outline mode and regular expression search; It also covers the use of the GNUS newsreader, the calendar, Rmail, and Dired --This text refers to the 47 Paperback edition Was this review helpful to you? Stallman also bought titles by these authors: * 48 Arthur Griffith * 49 Debra Cameron * 50 Andrew Oram * 51 Gary V. |
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