Sorry, Marcin, Since your answer came in the other thread, I didn’t realize that three have answered my questions.
Thank you for your Manual and Lisp book tip. I’ll try to work through all of them. Another thousands of pages … "Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh." --Ecclesiastes 12,12 ESV Best, Birnle > Am 13.6.2017 um 05:26 h schrieb Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl>: > > > On 2017-06-13, at 03:24, Birnle <bir...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Yes, John, you are surely right. From the beginning I use the Prelude >> Emacs distribution (http://batsov.com/prelude/) that comes with >> a bunch of preinstalled packages, so I don’t know yet what is original >> Emacs/Org and what is optional. So much to learn, so little time. >> >> Even for a text editing professional like me (publishing manager, >> foreign language typesetter, book producer, copy editor) Emacs is like >> an almost undiscovered parallel universe. I try boldly to go where >> just a few men have gone before … >> >> So thank you all, group, for being patient with an Emacs novice like me. > > I started (almost two decades ago...) with a vanilla Emacs. (There was > nothing like "Prelude" back then, I guess. Also, I had no internet > access (at home) until, like, ten years later...) > > Also, being a student, I had much free time then. I read most of the > Emacs manual. That helped _a lot_. > > BTW, Emacs absolutely rocks for copyediting (which I also happen to do), > since you can define lots of little commands to ease the repetitive > tasks. And yes, you probably do need to learn Lisp to master Emacs. > Start with "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" by Robert > J. Chassell (evaluate the form (info "eintr")). > > Best, > > -- > Marcin Borkowski >
