From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 09:50:14 +1000 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> <87bmddvvj8.fsf@mbork.pl> <87in7juhc6.fsf@mbork.pl> <5C62F3FC-7B77-43E5-A907-4060DA0E0219@gmail.com> <7eb9a17a-47e0-245c-8a33-6960d6ed4b7a@disroot.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526860108 30893 195.159.176.226 (20 May 2018 23:48:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 23:48:28 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 01:48:24 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 1fKY3r-0007uA-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 01:48:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48041 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKY5y-0000vP-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 19:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKY5p-0000v8-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 19:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKY5m-0006RG-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 19:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.201]:40601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKY5m-0006Qj-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 19:50:22 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 123.243.244.176 Original-Received: from epi.local (123-243-244-176.tpgi.com.au [123.243.244.176]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EEE211BF20C for ; Mon, 21 May 2018 01:50:25 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <7eb9a17a-47e0-245c-8a33-6960d6ed4b7a@disroot.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.201 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:225495 Archived-At: > Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth writes: >=20 > Richard Stallman writes: >> 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, >=20 > Jean-Christophe Helary writes: >> 1) What Richard requested and that is relatively urgent: the Emacs = Lisp Introduction should be first checked for factual errors (an expert = is needed there), >=20 > I agree with this. A larger rewrite will be necessary at some point = to make the Introduction to Emacs Lisp more suitable for learning = programming, but for now, mistakes (in the code, prose or otherwise) = should be fixed swiftly. Should a file for emacs/admin/notes/books be created? referencing this = thread like how the versioning file is structured.=