From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joseph Brenner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Do we need a "Stevens" book? Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:07:18 -0700 Message-ID: <87mxt6dzy1.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291852763 16473 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:59:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:59:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:59:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQTuk-0000Ui-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:59:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35523 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTuj-0001AU-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:59:13 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.rawbandwidth!news.posted.rawbandwidth.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:06:08 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pq8zXOdNSvTkGtj4aBdS9dlMSd8= Original-Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.144.208.84 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ogBHZISAQzbWSnllXpZ7o502chEQcJGDWssCyFOHNrX4bX+DGSGRUBpcKgVCbaHWa6yr70Ae2IwUk3B!EhTSiWeF5AxUWj82ylXU8tYOJw+RyEg92qRtYOo6zRUGtMFAFQ+E3djgK8q0LhqQCRBNliN3OvM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180256 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76256 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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.