Overview
From the best-selling author known for making technical material comprehensible and interesting
Explores what makes Emacs the text editor of choice for serious Unix users and programmers
The reference material alone is worth the price of the book
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, Harley Hahn demystifies Emacs for programmers, students, and everyday users. The first part of the book carefully creates a context for your work with Emacs. What exactly is Emacs? How does it relate to your personal need to work quickly and to solve problems? Hahn then explains the technical details you need to understand to work with your operating system, the various interfaces, and your file system.
In the second part of the book, Hahn provides an authoritative guide to the fundamentals of thinking and creating within the Emacs environment. You start by learning how to install and use Emacs with Linux, BSD-based Unix, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows.
Written with Hahn's clear, comfortable, and engaging style, Harley Hahn's Emacs Field Guide will surprise you: an engaging book to enjoy now, a comprehensive reference to treasure for years to come.
What You Will Learn
Who This Book Is For
Programmers, students, and everyday users, who want an engaging and authoritative introduction to the complex and powerful Emacs working environment.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Harley Hahn's Internet Yellow Pages, published by McGraw-Hill annually for 10 years, was the first Internet book in history to sell more than 1 million copies. This book, along with two other of Harley's Internet books — Harley Hahn's Internet Insecurity and Harley Hahn's Internet Advisor — were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Hahn is also the author of a variety of Unix- and Linux-related book and textbooks, including the highly regarded Harley Hahn's Guide to Unix and Linux.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Harley Hahn's Emacs Field Guide
Authors: Harley Hahn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1703-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Harley Hahn 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1702-3Published: 31 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1703-0Published: 30 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Operating Systems, Input/Output and Data Communications, Programming Techniques