From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-27 fda6009: Minor copyedits of Emacs manual Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:45:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmvvfw6a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210706115859.24857.52446@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210706115901.4C57E20B72@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14373"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 06 14:46:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m0kTR-0003VR-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:46:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46566 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0kTQ-0001iH-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0kS1-0000nh-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0kS0-0007UA-N2; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4637 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m0kRm-000187-UN; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:45:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:30:36 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271151 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:30:36 +0200 > > > Emacs comes with an introductory online tutorial available in many > > -languages. This book picks up where that tutorial ends. It explains > > -the full range of Emacs's power and contains reference material useful > > -to expert users. > > +languages, and this manual picks up where that tutorial ends. It > > +explains the full range of the power of Emacs, now up to @strong{version > > +27.2}, and contains reference material useful to expert users. It > > +also includes appendices with specific material about X and GTK > > +resources, and with details for users of macOS and Microsoft Windows. > > I think the final sentence here could be left out. The appendices > aren't super exciting or important in themselves, and the paragraph as > a whole carries more punch without it. Just my two cents. It's a marketing thing, not a technical one. The text comes from a person who manages the next printing of the Emacs manual for the FSF shop.