From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Guile in Emacs Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:06:12 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123695 Archived-At: writes: >>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup writes: > > David> Did you bother to read my posting to its end before replying to the > David> first sentence? I should think that I already addressed this. > > My apologies if I have misunderstood something; I did read all of the > mail. > > You wrote in the second paragraph: > >> Otherwise, only programmers can be expected to be able to use it. One >> reason for that is that non-Emacs specific Lisp manuals will not focus >> about how to get things done with Emacs. Applying a manual utterly >> without editing focus to editing tasks is quite a large intellectual >> feat. > > I would imagine that the system came with several manuals, a generic > one for common lisp (for instance the hyperspec) and a more emacs > specific one for the editing libraries (such as the buffer related > functions). > > Why would it make a big difference whether (say) `loop' and > `current-buffer' appear in different manuals as long as both are > available in the system and there are some appropriate top-level > index/search/contents/reading-guide support for the user? Because the language specific manual would have no constructs and no examples using any editor-specific data structures or any editor-specific tasks. But that's actually more or less a paraphrase of the "Otherwise, [...]" paragraph above again. I don't see anything in your reply that would address that. -- David Kastrup