Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

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Synopsis
The third edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms.
Copyright:
2009

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780596104184
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Copyrighted By:
O'Reilly Media
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Computers and Internet
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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Emacs, undoubtedly the most portable and infamous programmers' editor now works well with screen access software. If you are interested in mastering it, or using Emacspeak, this book is essential. It's a bit hard to find information in the book, but the Daisy files have good heading and page navigation, but like many of the OReilly books, the table of contents is missing from the bookshare version. Emacs does everything; it's a complete desktop (or shell) and once you know emacs, you can do everything you need to do as a programmer from within the emacs environment itself. Using this book, I forced myself to learn emacs and that effort pays off daily. It takes you step by step, no single chapter overwhelms you with too much information. Emacs can really increase your productivity, especially if you have a print impairment, because it runs on nearly all platforms and lets you cut and paste everything from within an editing an environment. There's no more spelling out long filenames to type them in to a command line elsewhere, for example; with emacs, just select what you want and paste it where it needs to go.