Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2018-02-11, at 08:58, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 15:57, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-02-11, at 00:27, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 4:47, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> My idea is to first explain the
>>>> basic concepts of Emacs, and then proceed to AUCTeX and various ways of
>>>> customizing Emacs.  I would be very glad if some more experienced Emacs
>>>> (and TeX) user could read my paper and suggest any enhancements.
>>> 
>>> May I suggest that you put the introduction to Emacs in an annex at the end of the article? Or even, since there are tons of introductions to emacs concepts, why not refer to them instead of writing your own ?
>> 
>> Maybe you misunderstood me.
>
> Very likely :)
>
>>  I do not want to put Yet Another Intro to
>> Emacs™ there.  I just want to explain (on, say, half a page) what Emacs
>> is and what are its core ideas, and introduce the language of buffers
>> and modes, so that the readers will know what I'm talking about later.
>
> But then, either the user knows what emacs is about and the half page will be redundant, or does not and then the half page won't be enough.

I'm not convinced.  I'll think about it.  Thanks for your input anyway!

> But it really all depends on how you write that so I won't say more, besides that I'd love to help with the proofreading!

Stay tuned!

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Marcin Borkowski