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The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
| Printed |
Page xxi
The text before the figure: "Type: emacs myfile," "myfile" is now |
in italics rather than bold.
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page xxii-xxiii
The following information was added the preface |
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|
Anonymous |
|
Jan 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 16
|
In the second to last paragraph, line 3 used to read:
"...gives a you..."
It now reads:
"...gives you..."
|
Anonymous |
|
Jan 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 24
Figure 2-2: The cursor location for ESC e (forward-sentence) is |
now located between "galleys." and "On" in the same line as the
"Initial cursor position".
|
Anonymous |
|
Feb 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 35
para. -2, lines -5 through -3: Deleted this sentence |
"Note that the character under the cursor is not considered part of
the defined region, since the point is conceptually right before
the
character the cursor is on."
|
Anonymous |
|
Feb 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 56
|
{56} Table 3-2, row -1: "C-rx" now reads "C-r"
|
Anonymous |
|
Nov 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 89
4th line, |
~/novel/memos;
now reads:
~/novel/memo;
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 89
At the end of the fourth line |
"...your empty buffer memo is associated with the ~/novel/memo"
now reads:
"...your empty buffer memo is associated with the ~/novel/memos"
|
Anonymous |
|
Jul 01, 2001 |
| Printed |
Page 119
Code line 1 (middle of the page) |
(setq shell-file-name "pathname for bash")
now reads:
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "/bin/sh")
("/bin/sh" is not italicezed.)
|
Anonymous |
|
Feb 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 124
|
The code near the bottom of the page used to read:
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-watch-for-password prompt)
It now reads:
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
The dash (-) before "prompt" was required.
|
Anonymous |
|
Jan 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 183
Table 6-9, column 1, line -4 |
"Exit without savingx"
now reads:
"Exit without saving"
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 266
Table 9-4, column 1: "TEX" (with the low "E") now reads "TeX" |
(the menu bar uses "TeX").
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 268
|
There's a backslash missing in line 19, which works when it reads:
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\.html$" . html-helper-mode) auto-mode-alist))
|
Anonymous |
|
|
| Printed |
Page 269
Code sample 2, line 2 |
"<a href="http://www.merryold.co.uk/~chuck/">Charles Dickens
<
now reads:
"<a href="http://www.merryold.co.uk/~chuck/">Charles Dickens
<
(add a before the last ")
|
Anonymous |
|
Feb 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 326
Line -1 |
"ESC x c-select-style"
now reads
"ESC x c-set-style"
|
Anonymous |
|
Feb 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 327
changed "add-hook c-mode-hook" to "add-hook 'c-mode-hook" (added |
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 329
same change as above |
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 331
same change again, except to "c++-mode-hook" |
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 387
|
First code block, first line read:
(add-hook mode-name-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'mode-name- hook
and the first line of the third code block read:
(add-hook edit-picture-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'edit-picture-hook
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 388
|
Middle of the page, first line of code read:
(add-hook nroff-mode-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'nroff-mode-hook
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 389
|
First line of code read:
(add-hook c-mode-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook
and the second code block began:
(add-hook c++-mode-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook
{390 First line of code read:
(add-hook c++-mode-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook
and the second code block began:
(add-hook c-mode-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 391
|
4th line read:
(add-hook c-mode-hook
it now reads:
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 451
Add to end of the first paragraph |
Note that you type ESC-x set-variable to set a variable for the current
Emacs session; permanent settings must be placed in the .emacs file.
|
Anonymous |
|
|
| Printed |
Page 469
2nd bullet item, second sentence |
A few commands . . .
ESC : (for open-dribble-file "filename") saves . . . , and
ESC : (for open-termscript "filename") saves . . . .
It now reads:
A few commands . . .
ESC : (open-dribble-file "filename") saves . . . , and
ESC : (open-termscript "filename") saves . . . .
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 517
|
downcase-word (see ESC d)
should read:
downcase-word (see ESC l)
|
Anonymous |
|
|
| Printed |
Page 532
in entry for "words, wrapping": changed "auto-file" to "auto-fill" |
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 1998 |
