Re: Contributing

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

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Since you are a web developer you might also want to have a look at nXhtml
and mumamo.el.

There are things in mumamo that can't be fixed without low level changes to
Emacs. A tough job.
On Jan 27, 2013 8:57 PM, "Matthew Wood" <doowttam@gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Matthew Wood <doowttam@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Thanks, I'll check out the bug list and some of the bigger packages I
>> > rely on, too.
>>
>> > More information: I'm a web developer working on Linux and primarily
>> > working in Perl, Python, Javascript, stuff like that. Probably not
>> > anything directly applicable, unfortunately.
>>
>> If you are in to PHP, then there is a "rumour" that Emacs lacks good
>> support for PHP.  May be you can try building one...
>>
>> Interestingly, there is no  Lisp...
>>
>> 1. Pick up some Elisp and CL.  Emacs comes with the following info
>>    manuals.
>>
>>         * Emacs Lisp Intro: (eintr).  A simple introduction to Emacs
>>           Lisp programming.
>>
>>         * CL: (cl).  Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp.
>>
>> 2. Elisp cookbook is a good resource.
>>         http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ElispCookbook
>>
>> 3. For a quick list of good-to-know APIs see
>>
>>         http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp_Cheat_Sheet
>>
>>    The page is badly formatted but good.
>>
>> 4. Build Emacs from Bzr trunk and use it for your day to day use.
>>    Sooner or later you may run in to some issues and you can take that
>>    opportunity to complain.
>>
>>         http://emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs
>>
>>
>> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jambunathan K
>> > <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Matthew Wood <doowttam@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> >     > I'm interested contributing, but don't have a project in mind.
>> >     The
>> >     > contributing docs mention starting with a message here.
>> >
>> >
>> >     May be you should tell us more?
>> >
>> >     How do you use your Emacs and to what ends. Are you a programmer
>> >     and
>> >     what languages do you program in? What are your interest areas?
>> >     What
>> >     platform do you use - Mac, Linux, Windows etc.
>> >
>> >     The easiest way to contribute is by filing bug reports, responding
>> >     to
>> >     and helping others in the MLs, IRC.
>> >
>> >     You can also contribute to any of the bigger packages like Gnus,
>> >     Org
>> >     mode, CEDET etc.
>> >
>> >     If you are serious about contributing, why not submit a(ny) patch
>> >     of say
>> >     20+ lines, asssign the copyright to FSF and have it integrated in
>> >     to
>> >     Emacs proper or GNU ELPA. See section titled `* Copyright
>> >     Assignment'
>> >     in etc/CONTRIBUTE.
>> >
>> >     Whether projects end up in your plate or not, lurking around in
>> >     the
>> >     mailing list of Emacs and sister projects can give you good
>> >     perspective
>> >     on the goings-on in Emacs world. You can join in when something
>> >     rings
>> >     a bell.
>> >
>> >
>> >     > Looking through the archives, I found a message that basically
>> >     said
>> >     > that there wasn't a well organized list of projects for beginner
>> >     > contributors. It suggested looking in etc/TODO and etc/NEWS for
>> >     ideas.
>> >     >
>> >     > Is that still the best way to start? Or is there a better way
>> >     now?
>> >     >
>> >     > Thanks.
>> >     >
>> >     > Matt Wood
>> >     >
>> >
>> >
>> >     --
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