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Emacs Lisp Elements

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339 points robenkleene | 2 comments | 12 Apr 25 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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ajross ◴[12 Apr 25 19:39 UTC] No.43667357[source]▶
Seems clear and useful. That said, there's nothing particularly bad or inaccessible about the actual Emacs Lisp manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/elisp.ht...

Or the official tutorial: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eintr.ht... (which to be clear I haven't read, but have heard nice things about).

Of all the things for which emacs can be criticised, documentation rigor is really not one.

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1. spudlyo ◴[13 Apr 25 01:59 UTC] No.43669427[source]▶
One reasons Prot himself was able to become a bonafide Emacs Guru in just a few years is because he's the kind of person who reads manuals. He speaks highly of the included docs, and often credits them for his knowledge.
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2. sph ◴[13 Apr 25 12:13 UTC] No.43672201[source]▶
And he wasn’t even a programmer by trade. AFAIK he used to work in Brussels at the European Commission, he started using Emacs for his writing and taught himself Emacs Lisp as a first programming language, probably by diving deep into the Emacs manual.