seeking a copy of "Writing GNU Emacs extensions" or equivalent

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:17:48PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> Hey all, I am reaching that point in my Emacs usage where learning some lisp 
> would be good.  In particular I would like to try writing a major mode or 
> two.  Anyone have this book or a pointer to a good, helpful tutorial?  i have 
> the GNU emacs lisp intro which is nice for learning lisp but fairly useless 
> for actually writing real code.

Sean,

I have the two-volume set documenting Emacs Lisp for version 21.
You're welcome to borrow it since I'm not an active Emacs user right
now.

These books are reference documentation; in fact, I think they're
generated directly from the texinfo source. For a beginner, _An
Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp_ may be better (it's also a
GNU manual, see http://www.gnu.org/doc/book4.html which even has a
link to an online copy). That said, my reference documentation set
(http://www.gnu.org/doc/book3.html) comes in extremely handy.

If you're still an xemacs user, you may prefer the xemacs fork of the
reference manual, available at
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/lispref.html or
http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/docs/letter/lispref-letter.pdf.gz. I
do not believe it's available in print.