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

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:43, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> 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.
>
> I've got a copy of _Writing Emacs Extensions_.  I don't care for it
> much (I vastly prefer the emacs-lisp-intro), but it might be what
> you're looking for.  I'd strongly recommend spending some time reading
> through it before plunking down any change.  It's basically a cookbook
> rather than a tutorial -- each chapter focuses on a handful of very
> specific tasks (simple commands, writing a minor mode, writing a major
> mode, etc) culminating in, bizarrely enough, implementing a crossword
> puzzle program in Emacs (which is cool, I guess, but isn't anywhere
> close to anything that I'd ever want to do).

sounds like what I am looking for.