GNU Emacs: Unix Text Editing and Programming

By Michael A. Schoonover

Book Overview

GNU Emacs is quickly becoming the text editor and programming environment of choice among UNIX users. This book is a succinct tutorial and comprehensive reference to standard GNU Emacs. If you are new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201563452
• ISBN13: 9780201563450
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

All but the scripting...

This is a clear and simple guide to learning emacs. It loses a star, though, for having very little on emacs Lisp, the scripting language you use to really make emacs jump through hoops. Still, you can get an excellent start with this book.

Very good reference

I liked the depth of examples in this book. Where the O'Reilly book "Learning GNU Emacs" gave an excellent introduction and overview, this book gave more involved examples. For example in the regexp-search-replace, this book showed the use of \( and \) for grouping and \1 \2 \3 for where to place the each group in the replacement string. If your are new to Emacs, get the O'Reilly book; then get this book next.