Emacs Beginner's HOWTO

5.3 BBDB (A rolodex)

BBDB is an Insidious Big Brother Database, a rolodex−like program for Emacs that works with most of the popular Emacs Mail packages (VM and GNUS included).

It is available here: http://pweb.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html.

5.4 AucTeX (another TeX mode)

AucTeX is another mode for editing TeX files.

To quote the AucTeX web site:

AUC TeX is an extensible package that supports writing and formatting TeX files for most variants of GNU Emacs. Many different macro packages are supported, including AMS TeX, LaTeX, and TeXinfo.

It is available here: http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/.

6. Other Resources

This section covers books, web sites, newsgroups, mailing lists, and other places you can find more information about Emacs.

6.1 Books

There are a a few really good books available for learning Emacs. In addition to these, you'll find that many Linux and Unix books also contain a chapter or two about Emacs (and vi).

Learning GNU Emacs

Authors: Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, Eric S. Raymond

Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates − http://www.ora.com/

Commentary: This is probably the best book to start with. After you've read the HOWTO and looked through the FAQ this book serves as a comprehensive and very approachable tutorial.

Writing GNU Emacs Extensions

Author: Bob Glickstein

Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates − http://www.ora.com/

Commentary: After you've used Emacs for a while and have decided that you'd like to try writing your own mode or maybe try out some advanced customization, this is the book for you. While it doesn't attempt to teach Lisp, it does contain a brief introduction to the language.