From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:02:05 +0100 Message-ID: <87y3jx7ztu.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87tvuo4oez.fsf@mbork.pl> <3779DEDB-48B0-4AFD-8620-E249105E6CF3@gmail.com> <87r2ps3tex.fsf@mbork.pl> <2A376770-58D9-4864-94AC-9328C3D0F8D0@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518530484 27000 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2018 14:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:01:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 15:01:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1elb8k-0005PT-8t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:00:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbAm-0005BA-3g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbAB-00058C-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbA7-0006rA-Ik for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:43594) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbA7-0006ny-8X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:02:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C787E68C5; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:02:14 +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 7RSMMZ--paGY; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:02:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (apn-31-1-171-82.dynamic.gprs.plus.pl [31.1.171.82]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B0701E6870; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:02:11 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <2A376770-58D9-4864-94AC-9328C3D0F8D0@gmail.com> 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115969 Archived-At: On 2018-02-11, at 08:58, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >> On Feb 11, 2018, at 15:57, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>=20 >>=20 >> On 2018-02-11, at 00:27, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >>=20 >>>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 4:47, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >>>>=20 >>>> 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. >>>=20 >>> 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 emac= s concepts, why not refer to them instead of writing your own ? >>=20 >> Maybe you misunderstood me. > > Very likely :) > >> I do not want to put Yet Another Intro to >> Emacs=E2=84=A2 there. I just want to explain (on, say, half a page) wha= t 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 wil= l 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, besi= des that I'd love to help with the proofreading! Stay tuned! --=20 Marcin Borkowski