Corrections

The tear card

• The keyboard quick reference card is unfortunately missing on the cd.
• In table 1 it says that &lt; is used to match the beginning of the word in regular expression, it should have been <.
• Likewise &gt; should have been > in the same table.

Hour 1 - Introduction to Emacs

• Page 21: Just below table 1.2 it sounds like I suggest that you should insert the following text into your .emacs file:

  
  (message "Loading bla bla...")
  
  (require 'bla)
  
  (message "Loading bla bla...Done")
  
  

  YOU SHALL NOT INSERT THIS TEXT!

Hour 2 - Using Emacs in Microsoft Windows

• Page 24: Here it says that Appendix A contain a description on how to install Emacs for Windows. Unfortunately it doesn't contain this information, so here it is.
• Page 35: Here it refers to what-env.el from the CD. It has, however, never made it to the CD.

Hour 3 - Getting Started With Emacs

• Page 48: Just below the figure it should say: Two of the buffers in these...
• Page 49: The location of point and mark is the opposite as what figure 3.10 tells.

Hour 4 - Basic Editing

• page 66 line -3 it should say: (/usr/local/~/.emacs is thus equal to ~/.emacs...
• On page 74, table 4.1 the following two corrections should be done to the first column: >>>RILE_RAW<<< should be >>>FILE_RAW<<<. Likewise >>>RILE_EXT<<< should be >>>FILE_EXT<<<
• In the text below the table on page 74, the following corrections should be made:
  • >P<<< should be changed to >>>P<<<
  • I<<< should be changed to >>>ISO_DATE<<<
  • >1<<< should be changed to >>>1<<<
  • >U<<< should be changed to >>>USER_NAME<<<
• Likewise on page 75, the following corrections should be done in the example:
  • >>>I<<< should be changed to >>>ISO_DATE<<<
  • >>>P<<< should be changed to >>>POINT<<<
  • >>>U<<< should be changed to >>>USER_NAME<<<
  • >TEMPLATE-DEFINITION-SECTION<< should be changed to >>>TEMPLATE-DEFINITION-SECTION<<<

Hour 5 - Recovering From Errors

Hour 6 - Editing Several Files at Once

• Page 96, figure 6.4. The description for % and * should be exchanged.
• Page 105 in the caution section: It should say C-- (Thats is control minus) rather than Ctrl-[ms]
• Page 105 in the caution section: There should be no line break between the last two lines.
• Page 107 in the notes section: it should say C-- and M-- instead of Ctrl-[ms] and Meta-[ms]

Hour 7 - Searching for Text in a Buffer

• The tip on page 126 should say:

  On the CD-ROM included with this book, a library called all.el exists in the directory usr/share/Emacs-lisp/lcd/misc. This lets you edit the matches in the occur buffer (which, with this library is called *ALL*) Your edits are then automaticly made in the original buffer too. To use this library copy the file all.el to your lisp directory, insert the following line in your .emacs file:
  (autoload 'all "all" nil t)
  and finally restart Emacs.

Hour 8 - Searching for Text in Multiple Files

• Page 132. The forth line should say:
  etags -l none -regex='/.*< *a name *= *"\([^"]+\)" *>/\1' files
• Page 138: It says you should type M-x (fgrep-find). You should not include the parenthesis.

Hour 9 - Regular Expressions

Hour 10 - The Emacs Help System and Configuration System

• Page 176: Here I promised to work on a port of hyper-apropos. Unfortunately I haven't had time for that yet.

Hour 11 - Editing Utilities

Hour 12 - Visible Editing Utilities

Hour 13 - Macros

• After I have written this book, I've created a package, which makes it very easy to name macros, bind them to keys, save the to files, load them from files, and finally give them a description, which can be listed for all macros. I suggest you check my home page, where this package is available from.
• Page 218: Here it says you should type M-x (name-last-kbd-macro) and M-x (insert-kbd-macro). You should not include the parenthesis.
• Page 226 table 13.1: The default key binding for editing keyboard macros is C-x C-k

Hour 14 - Finding Differences Between Files

Hour 15 - Getting an Overview of a File

• Page 250 figure 15.6: The u's in the regular expression should be spaces.
• On page 255 you have been promised some additions for narrowing. I've made them, they are called narrow-stack.el.

Hour 16 - Interfacing with the System

Hour 17 - Editing LaTeX and HTML files