This is a emacs lisp tutorial. The tutorial is focused on practical needs, and gives many examples. This tutorial is concise and to the point. It assumes you already know another programing language.
Understanding GNU Emacs and Tabs
By Eric Pement (pemente@northpark.edu)
Last updated: November 13, 2006
I love Emacs, but getting my head around how it handled TABs and how to make it do what I wanted it to do, was a major source of frustration. I spent several hours trying to figure it out, reading, searching and even grepping info pages. This summary is intended to be understandable by novices to Emacs. If you find mistakes or things I left out, or if it helps you, write me and let me know. This document is always subject to change, so please let me know if you find sections that are inaccurate or incomplete. My most recent change to this file was to update the URL to blank-mode, thanks to Devin Landes, who pointed out the broken link. (Thanx, Devin!)
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Following XEmacs Manuals are available for browsing on the XEmacs Website and all its mirrors worldwide:
* XEmacs 21.5 (xemacs/man sources in CVS)
* XEmacs Packages (packages sources, including texinfo sources, in CVS)
XEmacs Info Manuals in PDF format
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The following documents are available in PDF format (with permuted indices) for both US Letter and A4 sized paper:
Programming in Emacs Lisp, an Introduction (emacs-lisp-intro) [Letter] [A4]
XEmacs Internals Manual (internals) [Letter] [A4]
XEmacs Lisp Reference Manual (lispref) [Letter] [A4]
Getting Started With XEmacs (new-users-guide) [Letter] [A4]
XEmacs Users Manual (xemacs) [Letter] [A4]