> On May 21, 2018, at 13:11, Richard Stallman wrote: > > [[[ 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. ]]] > >> What I was saying was that in the 80's-90's, ie before computing >> became widespread thanks to common access to the internet, books >> needed to be self contained. > > The Emacs Lisp intro should still be self-contained. Indeed. But since users are likely to read it inside Emacs, as a PDF or as HTML, linking the document to the Lisp Reference or even, where necessary to the Emacs Manual, would provide the learner with a better experience than the current state of the introduction (as I wrote in a different mail, the information in the Lisp Reference is more informative than the help strings in the function documentation). > It should not depend on reference to anything across the internet, > since the person reading may not have an internet connection at the > time of coming across the reference. Wen people are reading printed copies, > the book should not say, "To understand the next section, first read > something else on your computer". But we should assume that a person who learns Emacs Lisp has access to a machine where Emacs is installed. Thus, providing links to the Lisp Reference or the Emacs Manual should not be an issue. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune