From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:06:46 +0300 Message-ID: <834mnjm73d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj5fgpd8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83h9rnp0yy.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj5enihg.fsf@gnu.org> <554EFEFD.6090908@gmail.com> <833834o4rv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431360451 8513 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2015 16:07:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:07:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 18:07:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YrqEi-0004Sw-IR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 18:07:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrqEh-0007mO-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 12:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrqEW-0007lr-Vf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 12:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrqES-0008Vz-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 12:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrqES-0008Vq-8T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 12:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NO7008000L0SI00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 19:07:02 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NO70081J0RKKP50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 19:06:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104383 Archived-At: > From: Vaidheeswaran C > Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:00:09 +0530 > > >> What I call as "A Book", may not in actuality be a book as it is > >> conventionally understood and consumed. > > > > Then what is it? And why would people want to use it, instead of > > googling? > > > > Without some "glue", there's no added value to a book that just brings > > together unsorted tops that are already available on the Web. > > You can help me define the "glue". It's that stuff that guides the reader from one feature to another, and generally allows the reader to make sense out of a huge pile of loosely related features. E.g., when you describe commands that act on buffers, they should be described in some methodical manner, and the order should make some sense, and facilitate understanding and memorizing them.