From: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Do we need a "Stevens" book?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:07:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxt6dzy1.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwveienfbfe.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Personally I've been admiring Emacs from afar for quite some time. I'm
>> really an Emacs/elisp newbie, but I've got a writing/technical writing
>> background. If what I'm saying strikes a chord, maybe I could be a
>> receiver/collector of a "best-practices-slash-wooly internals" sorta
>> book project. It would be a free/GNU sorta thing of course ... and
>> please don't say "I don't think there'd be enough interest in it."
>
> That would be welcome, yes (he said, after (and probably before as well)
> years of cleaning up messy code).
>
> Maybe a good way to do that is to try and get experienced Emacsers to do
> the effort of recording all/some of the "cleanup" they perform (as
> patches). Then later on, someone can go through those patches and try
> and extract principles from them.
Sounds good, of course. A page at the emacswiki?
I can think of an even simpler step that would be useful:
Make a list of files in the code base that are already cleaned
up, that you feel are good examples of the best practice in coding.
Possibly this could just be a page up at the emacswiki, too.
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[not found] <mailman.1.1280335348.2485.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-28 17:01 ` Do we need a "Stevens" book? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-28 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-01 17:07 ` Joseph Brenner [this message]
2010-07-28 16:42 Olwe Melwasul
2010-07-28 17:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-28 17:48 ` Richard Riley
2010-07-29 6:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-30 12:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-31 4:47 ` Ken Hori
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1280385826.20966.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-29 9:50 ` rustom
2010-07-29 10:02 ` Elena
[not found] ` <35282104-5b51-4ba4-8745-4fae239ce0ee@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-30 5:29 ` Fren Zeee
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