From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like? Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 07:05:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <554CED70.1080705@gmail.com> <87siauzjiz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <555955B1.5040905@gmail.com> <87oalizg8r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87twv9sno8.fsf@mbork.pl> <87r3qdd4ms.fsf@debian.uxu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1432033569 14417 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2015 11:06:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 13:05:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YufLO-00019O-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 13:05:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YufLN-00014c-Lu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YufL8-00014T-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YufL7-00047Q-9l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:05:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YufL6-00047J-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YufL5-0001P8-RG; Tue, 19 May 2015 07:05:36 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r3qdd4ms.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Mon, 18 May 2015 22:15:07 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186617 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > I think the one official Emacs book that is missing is > the authorized - but non-propagandistic - > (techno-)autobiography of a certain person who posted > in this very thread... I guess you must mean me, and by "propagandistic" you must be deprecating the goals of freedom which are the reason for GNU, GNU Emacs, and all the rest. I am not interested in writing a book that would focus on technical details and omit what I think is really important. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.