Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Edition
by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, and Eric Raymond


The unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.


This page was updated May 8, 2001.


Here's a key to the markup:

        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers: 


(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".


(110)  In Figure 4-3, the title is wrong.
What emacs opens is not "james" frame, but "hjames" frame.


{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.