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: Sat, 09 May 2015 13:38:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83zj5enihg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj5fgpd8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83h9rnp0yy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431167927 15167 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2015 10:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 10:38:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 09 12:38:36 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 1Yr29T-0000FG-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 12:38:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr29T-0002Oi-0J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 06:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr29I-0002OY-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 06:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr29F-0006bQ-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 06:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:37898) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yr29F-0006bE-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 06:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NO200600W402X00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 13:38:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NO2005BTW7VINC0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 13:38:20 +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: 80.179.55.166 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:104322 Archived-At: > From: Vaidheeswaran C > Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 14:48:55 +0530 > > If the tutorial is just a handout and the manual is a Handbook, the > "Emacs Book" will be a handy-book, full of tips and tricks and lot > less intimadting. I think you will find out that building a book based on tips and tricks for a package as large and complex as Emacs is a sure way to a book that won't be read. There's no reasonable way of describing the multitude of tricks and tips in any organized way. So in effect you will have a hodgepodge of unrelated stuff, impossible to read _as_ a book, and useful only for finding the particular trick one wants -- for which Google is much better method. A book must have some methodology and some didactic principles behind its organization and structure. It must describe its subject in some methodical way. Building on tips and tricks is therefore an antithesis of a book.