Re: Specialized Emacs Features ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>]

> On Jun 2, 2017, at 23:56, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary
> <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> You interpret "Advanced" too literally in this case.  I think it's a euphemism.
>> 
>> :) Yes, but the "Advanced Features" section is a mess that should be reorganized.
> 
> Perhaps by moving everything into it.

Thanks to Eli's comment I see that I was confused as to where the "specialized" chapters actually were in the documentation.

Now, forward to the structure of the current manual... Let's say we keep the separation between "normal" and "specialized" as far as the printed copies are concerned, we can still rearrange the way the manual is structured right now to put related features together and get rid of that silly "advanced features" section:

• 1 The Organization of the Screen
• 2 Kinds of User Input
• 3 Keys
• 4 Keys and Commands
• 5 Entering Emacs
• 6 Exiting Emacs
• 52 Quitting and Aborting
• 46 Saving Emacs Sessions
• 10 Help

• 8 The Minibuffer
• 9 Running Commands by Name
• 40 Running Shell Commands from Emacs

• 18 File Handling
• 7 Basic Editing Commands
• 22 International Character Set Support
• 16 Commands for Fixing Typos
• 15 Searching and Replacement
• 43 Sorting Text
• 24 Indentation
• 11 The Mark and the Region
• 12 Killing and Moving Text
• 13 Registers
• 17 Keyboard Macros
• 47 Recursive Editing Levels
• 30 Dired, the Directory Editor
• 42 Printing Hard Copies

• 14 Controlling the Display
• 19 Using Multiple Buffers
• 20 Multiple Windows
• 21 Frames and Graphical Displays

• 23 Major and Minor Modes
• 25 Commands for Human Languages
• 31 The Calendar and the Diary
• 26 Editing Programs
• 27 Compiling and Testing Programs
• 28 Maintaining Large Programs
• 29 Abbrevs
• 44 Editing Pictures
• 45 Editing Binary Files
• 37 Document Viewing
• 48 Hyperlinking and Navigation Features
• 49 Other Amusements

• 35 Host Security
• 36 Network Security
• 32 Sending Mail
• 33 Reading Mail with Rmail
• 34 Gnus
• 38 Web Browsing with EWW
• 39 Embedded WebKit Widgets
• 41 Using Emacs as a Server

• 50 Emacs Lisp Packages
• 51 Customization

• 53 Dealing with Emacs Trouble
• 54 Reporting Bugs
• 55 Contributing to Emacs Development
• 56 How To Get Help with GNU Emacs

Jean-Christophe