Re: Some ideas with Emacs

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

Anonymous <c4droid@foxmail.com> writes:

> First, suggest to add more examples of functions in the tutorial,
> most for Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, which can lower the learning
> threshold.

I think this is a fine idea that would make the manual more useful.
But the elisp manual is also printed on paper, and is from what I
understand already very long.  Does it make sense to include examples
in the info manual only?

> Second, in developing the Emacs plugins, create a virtual
> environment, like Python virtualenv, so that we can test the plugin
> in the virtual environment so that we do not need to affect the
> configuration outside the virtual environment. That's can implement
> plugin development environment and configuration isolation.

I think what you would do is something like "emacs -Q -l myenv.el" and
then set up the load-path, requires, and whatever else you need in
myenv.el.

> Although my suggestion may be a little trivial and even useless. But
> if my suggestions can help beginners like me go further, I think
> it's worth it.

We very much need to get more people hacking on Emacs.  So any
suggestion which could help us achieve that is welcome, I think.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas