From: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Van L <van@scratch.space>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 20:38:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97CEED22-57CE-4715-9239-1557F38AD994@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90addb33-6797-b203-4a67-a2a6c201bd81@cs.ucla.edu>
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> On May 17, 2018, at 10:12, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> On 05/16/2018 05:25 PM, Van L wrote:
>> The intro is almost 300 pages in full. I had expected 60 pages.
>
> This is an important point in its own right. Could you write a simplified introduction that is only 50 pages or so? That would be helpful to many potential users, I'd think.
The problem with the introduction is that it was written when programming was only starting to be a skill "normal" people could have access to. So the text is extremely verbose and is sometimes hard to follow because of that. The gist of the document could be summarized in 50 pages.
Jean-Christophe Helary
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-10 12:03 Making Emacs Manuals Available as PDF Files Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-05-10 14:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-11 4:32 ` Van L
2018-05-11 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-11 21:44 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-14 10:27 ` update intro to Emacs Lisp programming (was: Making Emacs Manuals Available as PDF Files) Van L
2018-05-15 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-17 0:25 ` Van L
2018-05-17 1:12 ` update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Paul Eggert
2018-05-17 11:38 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2018-05-18 2:33 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 12:16 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-18 13:39 ` Van L
2018-05-18 15:22 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-19 0:00 ` Van L
2018-05-19 0:52 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-20 1:38 ` Van L
2018-05-20 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-20 3:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-20 6:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-20 10:49 ` Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-05-20 23:50 ` Van L
2018-05-21 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-21 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-21 15:55 ` Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-05-22 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-22 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-22 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-21 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-21 6:30 ` Van L
2018-05-22 2:14 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-22 11:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-22 18:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-22 19:22 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-05-23 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-23 5:33 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-23 14:38 ` John Wiegley
2018-05-23 15:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-25 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-24 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-24 4:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-26 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-24 16:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-30 17:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 18:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-30 20:17 ` John Wiegley
2018-06-02 17:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-23 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-20 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-20 11:00 ` Van L
2018-05-21 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-22 17:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-23 1:53 ` Van L
2018-05-19 0:48 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-20 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 6:46 ` Van L
2018-05-19 3:20 ` Improve the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual with intro sections Richard Stallman
2018-05-20 1:04 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-21 4:09 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 2:31 ` update intro to Emacs Lisp programming (was: Making Emacs Manuals Available as PDF Files) Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 7:07 ` Van L
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