The GNU manuals are extremely comprehensive... far too comprehensive to read as an introductory text. The Emacs manual's table of contents alone is over 6000 words[1].<p>I recommend my own guide <a href="http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html" rel="nofollow">http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html</a> which teaches you how to use the Emacs built-in help, the elisp source code, and the built-in access to these very manuals.<p>[1]
lynx --dump <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/ind...</a> |
sed '/^References/,$ d' | wc -w