From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-Xtra Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:21:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17469.53282.265431.557135@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <87ek02t0h3.fsf@nicferrier.tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145054085 28495 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 22:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 15 00:34:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUWs9-0003fW-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:34:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUWs9-00048f-8N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUWru-00044T-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUWrt-00042a-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUWrs-00042U-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.187.188.218] (helo=owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FUWrv-0001Sn-UX; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.31.50.1] (helo=nicferrier.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by owls-house.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60 #1 (Debian)) id 1FUWg0-0007kP-Mi; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:22:04 +0100 Original-Received: from nferrier by nicferrier.tapsellferrier.co.uk with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FUWez-00016s-OO; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:21:01 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:18:49 -0400 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:52884 Archived-At: ") Message-ID: <87d5fjsss2.fsf@nicferrier.tapsellferrier.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Richard Stallman writes: > How about just publishing an extra manual with the information in it > needed for programmers? > > I'm sure we could find a whole lot more to put in that - and maybe > trim down the Emacs manual. > > I would like to see specific suggestions for how to do this. With > specific suggestions, I could criticize them, try to improve them, or > maybe use them. Whoops. I'm not sure I'd thought about this that much. But I do think that an emacs manual for developers would be a good idea. Emacs the IDE. Much more detail on the various programming modes and tools could be provided in such a manual. If I have time over the next 2 weeks I'll try and come up with a sketch of a table of contents for you to consider. Nic