From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 66706@debbugs.gnu.org, mattias.engdegard@gmail.com,
Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,
stefankangas@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#66706: [PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:40:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg06z057.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5c3f0f0-d9f7-417c-8290-6966d7ee5bba@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:07:00 -0700")
Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:
> If we can get some high-level agreement on things that this
> explanation should include (I'm not sure how much detail we want to go
> into in the ELisp Intro), I could take a stab at it.
>
> In particular, what's missing from the following paragraph[1]?
I'm not certain. My recollection of the previous discussion is that the
entire manual must be revised to relate lexical binding to the complete
novice, without sacrificing the clarity or simplicity of the text in the
process. The latter is a real pickle, for its original author has since
left us, and no other technical writers of his stature remain at our
disposal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-26 0:40 UTC|newest]
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2023-10-23 17:46 bug#66706: [PATCH] Automatic elisp dialect insertion Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-23 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-23 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 19:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-23 20:20 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-24 17:31 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-24 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 19:19 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-24 20:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-25 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 11:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 12:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-25 12:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-26 0:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-26 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 3:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-27 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 7:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-10-27 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-29 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 0:59 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 1:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 2:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 3:01 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 11:48 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 12:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-25 12:48 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 14:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 0:01 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 12:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 13:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-25 13:20 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 13:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-26 0:07 ` Jim Porter
2023-10-26 0:40 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-10-26 0:51 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 1:19 ` Jim Porter
2023-10-26 1:41 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 3:48 ` Jim Porter
2023-10-26 5:56 ` Jim Porter
2023-10-26 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 2:37 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-26 2:28 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-26 5:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 16:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-25 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 0:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-25 18:19 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-25 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-25 19:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-25 23:43 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 0:07 ` Jim Porter
2023-10-26 2:34 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-26 3:56 ` Jim Porter
2023-10-26 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-26 6:31 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 14:02 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 15:35 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-26 8:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-10-26 11:39 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2023-10-26 15:36 ` Drew Adams
2023-10-25 12:36 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2023-10-25 12:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-26 11:06 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2023-10-25 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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