From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some ideas with Emacs Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:30:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87fthx9ui8.fsf@mbork.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="150020"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ag Ibragimov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 06 20:07:00 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1idIwN-000cqc-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:07:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44182 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1idIwM-0001mq-5o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42725) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1idINO-0006RW-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:30:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1idINN-0002Q4-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:30:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:48246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1idINN-0002O0-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:30:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C8EE6D98; Fri, 6 Dec 2019 19:30:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jsVXXoctckpS; Fri, 6 Dec 2019 19:30:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (jeden09-dwa27.echostar.pl [213.156.109.227]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 06DFCE6D92; Fri, 6 Dec 2019 19:30:41 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:243190 Archived-At: On 2019-12-03, at 07:07, Ag Ibragimov wrote: > Ooohweee, I've lost myself in the weeds of this discussion thread. It seems writing a book about Emacs Lisp is an arduous task (no shit), writing a comprehensive manual is not easy either. > > So I thought: what if we start a repository, make a pitch through social platforms, get people interested, and start collecting various elisp recipes. Then after a while, maybe we could form a curated list. After a few, maybe several months, we gather enough material to make a book out of that? > > "Emacs Lisp Cookbook" or something? No. You may indeed prepare a "cookbook", or a wiki this way - but not a _book_. A "book" (as opposed to a wiki, a _cookbook_ or a manual) is something that _tells a story_. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl