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: Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:41 -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> <87fu2jh8ds.fsf@mbork.pl> <878t8bgclv.fsf@mbork.pl> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527130082 28960 195.159.176.226 (24 May 2018 02:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 02:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 04:47:58 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 1fLgIH-0007Og-RU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2018 04:47:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36234 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgKO-00021t-O4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgKF-000209-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgKE-00011K-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54817) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJy-0000sh-GX; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fLgJx-0007wM-S5; Wed, 23 May 2018 22:49:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <878t8bgclv.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Wed, 23 May 2018 07:33:43 +0200) 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:225642 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. ]]] > > > BTW, I once had an idea to write a "next step" book on Emacs Lisp, one > > > that could be read after the Intro. > > > > How about adding that mew material as the start of the Emacs Lisp > > Reference Manual? > There are several reasons I don't think this is a good idea. If you present those reasons, the rest of us could think about them and perhaps be persuaded. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)