From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some ideas with Emacs Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:56:56 +0100 Message-ID: <8736e4titj.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87d0dbszjn.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="103093"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: c4droid@foxmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 01 11:57:59 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ibMvO-000Qcz-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:57:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49958 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ibMvN-0000fs-PS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 05:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ibMuk-0000aE-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 05:57:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibMuh-0002gi-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 05:57:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:43832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ibMug-0002ec-IU; Sun, 01 Dec 2019 05:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA447E65B2; Sun, 1 Dec 2019 11:57:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id t8eq6aoBnb26; Sun, 1 Dec 2019 11:57:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (jeden09-dwa27.echostar.pl [213.156.109.227]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1079FE6553; Sun, 1 Dec 2019 11:57:01 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242951 Archived-At: On 2019-12-01, at 06:57, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > The Intro to Emacs Lisp needs updating. Emacs Lisp has changed since > the late Bob Chassell worked on it. > > Would you like to update it? That would be far easier than writing a > new manual from zero, and would be good practice for that. Easier - probably yes. But Bob Chassell's book is distributed under GFDL, which may be a good choice for documentation, but is an extremely bad choice for a book. Contributing to a GFDL book is pointless IMO. (I might release my book on some CC license one day, but then it would have to be an ND variant.) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl