Most of the GNU Emacs integrated environment is written in the programming language called Emacs Lisp. The code written in this programming language is the software (the sets of instructions) that tell the computer what to do when you give it commands. Emacs is designed so that you can write new code in Emacs Lisp and easily install it as an extension to the editor. This introduction to Emacs Lisp is designed to get you started: to guide you in learning the fundamentals of programming, and more importantly, to show you how you can teach yourself to go further. This manual is available online for free at gnu.org. This manual is printed in grayscale.

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp: Edition 3.10

Computers & Technology

Chassell, Robert J.

Operating Systems

12th Media Services

Emacs Lisp is a simple, complete, and powerful programming language. It is the building block of GNU Emacs, which is an integrated development environment with special features for scanning and parsing text as well as for handling multiple files and sub-processors. 
This book will show you: * how to set variables and write function definitions * How to use "if" and "let" * How to write "while" loops and recursive loops * how to search for a word or expression * how to customize GNU Emacs for yourself, even when it is shared on a network. * how to debug programs * and much more. 
This tutorial an elementary introduction to teach non-programmers how to customize their work environment; it can also be used as an introduction to programming basics. It includes numerous exercises and sample programs; the author also walks you through the actual source code of several GNU Emacs commands. A handy reference appendix is included. 
This second edition covers new features included in GNU Emacs version 21, while remaining compatible with earlier versions.

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

Programming

Free Software Foundation

Texinfo: The GNU documentation format

This tutorial an elementary introduction to teach non-programmers how to customize their work environment; it can also be used as an introduction to programming basics. It includes numerous exercises and sample programs; the author also walks you through the actual source code of several GNU Emacs commands. A handy reference appendix is included. 
Emacs Lisp is a simple, complete, and powerful programming language. It is the building block of GNU Emacs, which is an integrated development environment with special features for scanning and parsing text as well as for handling multiple files, buffers, displays, windows, and sub-processors. This book will show you: 
* how to set variables and write function definitions * How to use "if" and "let" * How to write "while" loops and recursive loops * how to search for a word or expression * how to customize GNU Emacs for yourself, even when it is shared on a network. * how to debug programs * and much more. 
This revised second edition covers new features included in GNU Emacs version 21, while remaining compatible with earlier versions.

This tutorial is the authoritative text for the official documentation formatting language used for all GNU Project manuals. It assumes no previous Texinfo knowledge and includes many examples and exercises.

Texinfo: The Gnu Documentation Format

Stallman, Richard M.

Chassell, Robert

Software

Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both online information and printed output. This means that instead of writing two different documents, one for the online information and the other for a printed work, you need write only one document. Therefore, when the work is revised, you need revise only that one document. Texinfo’s markup commands are almost entirely semantic; that is, they specify the intended meaning of text in the document, rather than physical formatting instructions. Texinfo was devised for the purpose of writing software documentation and manuals. It is not, and was never intended to be, a general-purpose formatting program. If you need to lay out a newspaper, devise a glossy magazine ad, or follow the exact formatting requirements of a publishing house, Texinfo is not the simplest tool. On the other hand, if you want to write a good manual for your program, Texinfo has many features that will make your job easier. Overall, it’s intended to let you concentrate on the content, and thus provides almost no commands for controlling the final formatting.

GNU Texinfo 6.0: The GNU Documentation Format

Samurai Media Limited

Most of the GNU Emacs integrated environment is written in the programming language called Emacs Lisp. The code written in this programming language is the software—the sets of instructions—that tell the computer what to do when you give it commands. Emacs is designed so that you can write new code in Emacs Lisp and easily install it as an extension to the editor. (GNU Emacs is sometimes called an “extensible editor”, but it does much more than provide editing capabilities. It is better to refer to Emacs as an “extensible computing environment”. However, that phrase is quite a mouthful. It is easier to refer to Emacs simply as an editor. Moreover, everything you do in Emacs—find the Mayan date and phases of the moon, simplify polynomials, debug code, manage files, read letters, write books—all these activities are kinds of editing in the most general sense of the word.) Although Emacs Lisp is usually thought of in association only with Emacs, it is a full computer programming language. You can use Emacs Lisp as you would any other programming language. Perhaps you want to understand programming; perhaps you want to extend Emacs; or perhaps you want to become a programmer. This introduction to Emacs Lisp is designed to get you started: to guide you in learning the fundamentals of programming, and more importantly, to show you how you can teach yourself to go further.

Emacs Lisp - An Introduction

Programming Languages

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An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp: Edition 3.10

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

Texinfo: The GNU documentation format

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

Texinfo: The Gnu Documentation Format

GNU Texinfo 6.0: The GNU Documentation Format

Emacs Lisp - An Introduction