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Summary: Not too impressed
Review: Everyone tells me what a powerful editor emacs is. Maybe so, but this little book did very little to help me tap its power. It's unhelpful on how to change modes and on regular expression searches; I still have to use vi to make more complicated substitutions! Is that necessary? I guess not, but this book helped me not one bit.I give it 2 stars as it does have the saving grace of being short, and could get you started perhaps a little quicker than the online tutorial. Really! Someone ought to write a decent book on emacs.
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Summary: GNU Emacs Pcoket Reference Book
Review: Great book for beginners and those of us who haven't used emacs in awhile and need a little reminder here 'n there. There are many more extensive books on emacs, but this is great for a handy reference without the bulk of a comprehensive book.
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Summary: Almost useless
Review: 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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Summary: GNU Emacs Pcoket Reference Book
Review: If you are new to Emacs, the I would recommend this book to you. It gives you all of the key commands that you need right at your fingertips. If you new to learn Emacs, get a full featured book, but also get this one. You will probably find yourself referencing this book quite often until you remember all of the common keystrokes.
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Summary: Great for any new Emacs user.
Review: If you are new to Emacs, the I would recommend this book to you. It gives you all of the key commands that you need right at your fingertips. If you new to learn Emacs, get a full featured book, but also get this one. You will probably find yourself referencing this book quite often until you remember all of the common keystrokes.
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Summary: Quick and Easy Access to emacs foo...
Review: It's pretty tough to beat this pocket reference to emacs. It makes looking up both common options and less common commands and modes simple and quick. If you're an emacs user, this book is a must have -it's easier than apropos and quicker than C-h ?.
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Summary: Quick and Easy Access to emacs foo...
Review: It's pretty tough to beat this pocket reference to emacs. It makes looking up both common options and less common commands and modes simple and quick. If you're an emacs user, this book is a must have -it's easier than apropos and quicker than C-h ?.
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Summary: Ignore this book if you are a serious programmer
Review: This books is totally useless for a serious C programmer used to an editor like vi and switching to emacs. It just doesn't cover enough "progamming" type features. You'll need a full length book.
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Summary: good extra REFERENCE
Review: 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.
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Summary: good extra REFERENCE
Review: 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.
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