Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xxii-xxiii The following information was added the preface |
"How to Contact Us |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
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 16 |
In the second to last paragraph, line 3 used to read: |
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 |
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 |
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; |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 89 At the end of the fourth line |
"...your empty buffer memo is associated with the ~/novel/memo" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 119 Code line 1 (middle of the page) |
(setq shell-file-name "pathname for bash") |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 124 |
The code near the bottom of the page used to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 183 Table 6-9, column 1, line -4 |
"Exit without savingx" |
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: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 269 Code sample 2, line 2 |
"<a href="http://www.merryold.co.uk/~chuck/">Charles Dickens |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 326 Line -1 |
"ESC x c-select-style" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 327 changed "add-hook c-mode-hook" to "add-hook 'c-mode-hook" (added |
missing backtick) |
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: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 388 |
Middle of the page, first line of code read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 389 |
First line of code read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 391 |
4th line read: |
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 |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 469 2nd bullet item, second sentence |
A few commands . . . |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 517 |
downcase-word (see ESC d) |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 532 in entry for "words, wrapping": changed "auto-file" to "auto-fill" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1998 |