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From: dkf8...@tamsun.tamu.edu (Duane)
Subject: Looking For EMACS class materials
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If anyone has any material that would be of used to me in teaching an
introduction to emacs class, please let me know. Getting started guides,
overhead sources, etc... all would be usefull.
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In-reply-to: dkf8117@tamsun.tamu.edu's message of 11 Jun 92 14:15:08 GMT
>>>>> On 11 Jun 92 14:15:08 GMT, dkf8...@tamsun.tamu.edu (Duane) said:
Duane> If anyone has any material that would be of used to me in
Duane> teaching an introduction to emacs class, please let me know.
Duane> Getting started guides, overhead sources, etc... all would be
Duane> usefull.
For getting started guides, I recommend the book
"Learning GNU Emacs"
by Debra Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt
October 1991
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
I have got much more out of that book than going through the on-line
tutorial. Here is a brief table of contents:
Chapter 1 - Emacs Basics
2 - Editing Files
3 - Search and Replace Operations
4 - Using Buffers and Windows
5 - Emacs as a Work Environment
6 - Simple Text Formatting and Specialized Editing
7 - Using Emacs with UNIX Text Formatters
8 - Writing Macros
9 - Customizing Emacs
10 - Emacs For Programmers
11 - Emacs LISP Programming
12 - Emacs for the X Window System
13 - Online Help
Appendix A - How to Get Emacs
B - Making Emacs Work the Way You Think It Should
C - Emacs Variables
D - Emacs LISP Packages
E - Bugs and Bug Fixes
F - Public Statements
G - Give and It Shall Be Given
H - Quick Reference
Index
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From: r...@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
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Please don't recommend proprietary documentation such as the O'Reilly
book in GNU mailing lists/newsgroups such as gnu.emacs.help.
O'Reilly had a chance to help the GNU project--by sharing the book
with us in the same way that we share the documentation for Emacs--but
they chose to be uncooperative. They want to take and not give.
O'Reilly will no doubt say that this was necessary in order to make
money. But our experience shows that it is possible to sell many
copies of a copylefted manual. I'm sure O'Reilly could have done this
too. It was a matter of greed, not necessity.
It is not in the interests of GNU users to reward people for not
contributing to GNU. So, when people ask you to recommend
documentation, please promote free documentation, not unfree
documentation.
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I have got much more out of that book than going through the on-line
tutorial.
The tutorial serves to introduce the basic facilities of Emacs. The
free documentation comprises the tutorial and the Emacs manual; once
you finish the tutorial, you know enough to read the manual (on paper
or on-line).