Emacs Lisp References

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

This page is a overview of elisp references.

For a short encyclopedia styled intro about elisp, see: Wikipedia: Emacs Lisp.

Intro to Elisp for Non-Programers

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp by Robert J Chassell. Buy at amazon

This books is for those who never programed before. This book is bundled with emacs since version 22. To view it in emacs, call info 【Ctrl+h i】, then click on the “Emacs Lisp Intro”.

Official Emacs Lisp Reference

The official doc for elisp is the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, by Robert Krawitz, Bil Lewis http://www.lambdacs.com/bil/bil.html, Dan LaLiberte http://www.hypernews.org/~liberte/ , Richard Stallman, Chris Welty, Robert J Chassell and others. Buy at amazon

To view it in emacs, call info 【Ctrl+h i】, then click on the “ELisp”. A pretty-formatted HTML version is available at: GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.

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