From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 18:12:07 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <90addb33-6797-b203-4a67-a2a6c201bd81@cs.ucla.edu> References: <80DB6796-41FE-4090-B1DD-BF5AE3F4D0CF@scratch.space> <83zi16ofny.fsf@gnu.org> <6A8BB190-FA64-4697-AFDA-EFBEB4886230@scratch.space> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526519415 532 195.159.176.226 (17 May 2018 01:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 01:10:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 To: Van L , Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 17 03:10:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ7Qo-0008Uq-NN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 03:10:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ7Sv-0007b3-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ7Sp-0007ae-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ7Sl-0007Zv-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:59054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJ7Sl-0007Yj-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C3316050C; Wed, 16 May 2018 18:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Iji9e9ZLu8Hm; Wed, 16 May 2018 18:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A8A16050D; Wed, 16 May 2018 18:12:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id j__FATOd9XFt; Wed, 16 May 2018 18:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9169A16050C; Wed, 16 May 2018 18:12:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:225355 Archived-At: On 05/16/2018 05:25 PM, Van L wrote: > The intro is almost 300 pages in full. I had expected 60 pages. This is an important point in its own right. Could you write a simplified introduction that is only 50 pages or so? That would be helpful to many potential users, I'd think.