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: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 23:15:38 -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> <376AD40E-4EEC-4DC6-ADDA-4E594EAFE1DE@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 1526786077 23405 195.159.176.226 (20 May 2018 03:14:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 03:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 05:14:33 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 1fKEnm-0005wL-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 05:14:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEpt-0000V7-DO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEox-0000UD-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEow-0001jb-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEot-0001e2-5n; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fKEos-0002zv-MH; Sat, 19 May 2018 23:15:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <376AD40E-4EEC-4DC6-ADDA-4E594EAFE1DE@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Fri, 18 May 2018 21:16:24 +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:225460 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 fully aware of that. Let me restate what I wrote. The book > was written at a time when computer where not common and > programming was a skill you could only learn from *books*. We still need free books to learn programming from. This book is the one we have. It needs to be checked to see what changes are needed to correspond to the current Emacs, If you want to rewrite it totally to do a different job, do so if you wish. The result could be useful -- for some other purpose. -- 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.