From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add prettify symbols to python-mode Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:32:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8sbkhv0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1442777283-27514-1-git-send-email-mvoteiza@udel.edu> <20150921005306.GA29147@holos> <87h9mlwt6l.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83bnctliay.fsf@gnu.org> <874mik6wqp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443105202 29760 80.91.229.3 (24 Sep 2015 14:33:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, Stromeko@nexgo.de, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kaushal Modi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 16:33:14 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 1Zf7aB-0002xA-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:33:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zf7aB-0002Mo-5h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:33:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zf7a2-00025i-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zf7a1-0000VN-Gm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:57077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zf7Zx-0000Rd-6O; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 10:32:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NV600J00R41VD00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:35:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NV600F4OR7CJW40@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:35:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:190333 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:33:09 -0400 > From: Kaushal Modi > Cc: Achim Gratz , Xue Fuqiao , > Emacs-devel , Eli Zaretskii > > I believe that the "beginner" here in question is not someone who just started using emacs but a beginner contributor who is already comfortable with emacs and is interested in contributing to the C code but isn't because there isn't enough "Getting started with C tinkering in emacs" documentation. In general, the level of documentation (or lack thereof) about the internals is about the same in C and in Lisp, so I don't understand why this is seen as a problem for C hacking, but not for Lisp. > I like the points that Xue made there with an example of what a "beginner" would go through when trying to understand the display engine. As I wrote in response, those points are all but covered already, starting with CONTRIBUTE, so the perceived lack of information seems to be largely an illusion.