From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Learning emacs sources Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:45:34 +0900 Message-ID: <87ocr2anxt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4314c1f70907281928j44085466p229bab8204ea9ff2@mail.gmail.com> <8763dc5g2s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87ws5s9lmw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d47jw6hx.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248924550 13435 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 03:29:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sean Sieger Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 30 05:29:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWMKE-00071l-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:29:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44266 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWMKD-0008Gw-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWLiL-0002Te-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWLiF-0002Jt-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49020 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWLiF-0002J9-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:60830) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWLiE-0008D0-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWLiD-00086x-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110011537BE; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:49:37 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6CDE81A2E79; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:45:34 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87d47jw6hx.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 5bbff3553494 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113371 Archived-At: Sean Sieger writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > If you want to understand the design overview, then > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html > > (the basic textbook for "Emacs 101", authored by Richard Stallman) > > Wow. Thank you for this, though right under my nose for a decade I've > never heard of this. Thank Richard! I've never understood why it isn't distributed with Emacs, though. If necessary (like the GNU Manifesto) it could be marked "of great historical interest though implementation details differ today".