From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 23:23:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <80DB6796-41FE-4090-B1DD-BF5AE3F4D0CF@scratch.space> <83zi16ofny.fsf@gnu.org> <6A8BB190-FA64-4697-AFDA-EFBEB4886230@scratch.space> <90addb33-6797-b203-4a67-a2a6c201bd81@cs.ucla.edu> <97CEED22-57CE-4715-9239-1557F38AD994@gmail.com> <376AD40E-4EEC-4DC6-ADDA-4E594EAFE1DE@gmail.com> <87bmddvvj8.fsf@mbork.pl> <87in7juhc6.fsf@mbork.pl> <5C62F3FC-7B77-43E5-A907-4060DA0E0219@gmail.com> <6FC095B3-5F73-4E17-B2EB-BE9F98E2009E@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527045685 17520 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2018 03:21:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 03:21:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 05:21:21 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 1fLKL3-0004SB-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 05:21:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59011 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKNA-0002h9-6E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45051) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKN3-0002h3-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKN2-0001kJ-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33013) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKN0-0001j3-Ob; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fLKN0-0006Zp-By; Tue, 22 May 2018 23:23:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <6FC095B3-5F73-4E17-B2EB-BE9F98E2009E@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Tue, 22 May 2018 20:20:18 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:225585 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. ]]] > Indeed. But since users are likely to read it inside Emacs, as a > PDF or as HTML, linking the document to the Lisp Reference or > even, where necessary to the Emacs Manual, I'm in favor of that. If we do it with Texinfo references, they will "work" regardless of medium. But we might want to put these in footnotes, contrary to our usual practice, so that they don't break the flow. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)