From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like? Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 12:23:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <554CED70.1080705@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431966223 5230 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2015 16:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 16:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vaidheeswaran C Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 18:23:33 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 1YuNpD-0001XE-D5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 18:23:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuNpC-0006M4-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 12:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuNow-0006Jx-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 12:23:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuNos-0008SB-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 12:23:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:51083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuNos-0008Rq-MF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 12:23:10 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVTO+LMW/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRi3gIBAgPBkwDA4M+AwODbQSjY4RY X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVTO+LMW/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRi3gIBAgPBkwDA4M+AwODbQSjY4RY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="120612696" Original-Received: from 206-248-179-22.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([206.248.179.22]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 18 May 2015 12:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8233FAE164; Mon, 18 May 2015 12:23:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Vaidheeswaran C.'s message of "Mon, 18 May 2015 07:51:13 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:186585 Archived-At: > I am trying to get senior Emacs developers involved (early in the > cycle) to ensure that the Emacs Primer I am proposing is of comparable > quality to Emacs Manual. I suggest you don't worry about that too much: "senior developers" are likely already busy enough with Emacs stuff not to want to devote yet more time to it in some other form. Furthermore, senor Emacs developers might be rather disconnected from the target audience of the book, so they might not give you the best advice. As I said already I do think there's room for another Emacs book, and it would be great for it to be GFDL'd so we can recommend it and the FSF could maybe even sell it. So I'm all for it, but in terms of concrete help, I probably can't do much (at least for now: I might give you useful feedback once a draft is available). Stefan