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Learning GNU Emacs

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Printed Page 25
3rd paragraph

Consider the sentence "... rather than interpreting C-l as the recenter
commend."

"recenter" is shown in italic type, but should be in bold because it's a
command.

I'm also not sure about the word "quote" in the sentence before that one.
The actual name of the command (at least in my version of XEmacs) is
"quoted-insert".

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 110
In Figure 4-3, the title is wrong.

What emacs opens is not "james" frame, but "hjames" frame.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 387
Third code sample (starting with "(add-hook..."

In this section of the book, the author(s) are describing how to change the
keybindings for major modes that have not been loaded yet, by using the
Emacs Lisp feature "add-hook."

All the examples in this section omit an apostrophe:

(add-hook edit-picture-hook

should really be:

(add-hook 'edit-picture-hook

Without the apostrophe, you get the cryptic "trying to set nil" error
message. Fortunately I was able to figure the problem out by reading
gnu.org's online Emacs documentation.

 Anonymous