From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Improve the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual with intro sections Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 23:20:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <80DB6796-41FE-4090-B1DD-BF5AE3F4D0CF@scratch.space> <83zi16ofny.fsf@gnu.org> <6A8BB190-FA64-4697-AFDA-EFBEB4886230@scratch.space> <90addb33-6797-b203-4a67-a2a6c201bd81@cs.ucla.edu> <97CEED22-57CE-4715-9239-1557F38AD994@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526699967 21609 195.159.176.226 (19 May 2018 03:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 03:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: van@scratch.space, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 05:19:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1fJsOw-0005Wt-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 05:19:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsR3-0003ug-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsQI-0003tV-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsQH-0000Gj-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsQB-0000Ey-5d; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fJsQA-0002FS-NB; Fri, 18 May 2018 23:20:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <97CEED22-57CE-4715-9239-1557F38AD994@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Thu, 17 May 2018 20:38:42 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225419 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. ]]] Could we make the Emacs Lisp Referene Manual more suitable for programmers to learn Emacs Lisp by adding a few introductory chapters? That way, programmers would not need to plow through the explanations in the Intro to Emacs Lisp that all programmers already understand. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.