From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What would an "An Official" GNU Emacs Book look like? Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:54:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <554CED70.1080705@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431975275 691 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2015 18:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 20:54:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YuQB5-0006pU-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 20:54:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuQB4-000525-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 14:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36241) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuQAz-0004zA-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 14:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuQAu-0007zc-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 14:54:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuQAu-0007zX-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 14:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuQAu-0007hL-50; Mon, 18 May 2015 14:54:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Vaidheeswaran C on Mon, 18 May 2015 07:51:13 +0530) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186594 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I am trying to get senior Emacs developers involved (early in the > cycle) to ensure that the Emacs Primer I am proposing is of comparable > quality to Emacs Manual. In order to start a project, you have to provide the vision and the impetus. Without those, you are only stating an idea and hoping someone else will provide the vision and the impetus. The thing is, if nobody else happens to be ready with vision and impetus for a manual, nobody will do that. The starting challenge is, what sort of book would do a useful Emacs job that the existing three books don't do well? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.