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GNU Emacs Pocket Reference
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Author: Debra Cameron
List Price: $9.95
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ISBN: 1565924967
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (01 November, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 89,610
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
good extra REFERENCE
This is not a book to teach you how to use Emacs as some other reviewers think. This book is a reference and a reference only. It gives you a listing of common emacs commands. If you won't be going into the nitty gritty details of Emacs, use this. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and get Learning Emacs. This books is good at accomplishing its purpose...a secondary reference for Learning Emacs.
Rating: 3 out of 5
It is only a pocket reference!
Yes, emacs is the most powerful editor and this book is only a little pocket reference! The book is unnecessary after 2 days (if you did not know emacs before). It is good only for a short introduction in the commands of emacs. After two days you must buy Learning Gnu Emacs, which is really a book to learn emacs!
Do not expect to much from a litte reference!
Virgilio Krumbacher
Rating: 2 out of 5
Almost useless
I've tried to used this to look stuff up while learning Emacs, and it is not useful to me. I have two main objections: 1. It is not organized in a way that makes it easy to look things up. There have been times when I knew the information was in the book (since I had seen it before), but had to just flip through every page to actually find it. 2. It's very incomplete. I cannot find a command in this book that takes me to a given line in a file. I suspect the book fails because he tries to cover everything. I do not expect a pocket reference to cover some nonstandard HTML mode, or how to use Emacs as my mail reader. I want a reference on how to use it to edit text and code. I probably won't open this book again; I'll just bookmark the online manual.
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