From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Do we need a "Stevens" book?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:15:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveienfbfe.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1.1280335348.2485.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Personally I've been admiring Emacs from afar for quite some time. I'm
> really an Emacs/elisp newbie, but I've got a writing/technical writing
> background. If what I'm saying strikes a chord, maybe I could be a
> receiver/collector of a "best-practices-slash-wooly internals" sorta
> book project. It would be a free/GNU sorta thing of course ... and
> please don't say "I don't think there'd be enough interest in it."
That would be welcome, yes (he said, after (and probably before as well)
years of cleaning up messy code).
Maybe a good way to do that is to try and get experienced Emacsers to do
the effort of recording all/some of the "cleanup" they perform (as
patches). Then later on, someone can go through those patches and try
and extract principles from them.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1.1280335348.2485.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-28 17:01 ` Do we need a "Stevens" book? Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-28 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-08-01 17:07 ` Joseph Brenner
2010-07-28 16:42 Olwe Melwasul
2010-07-28 17:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-28 17:48 ` Richard Riley
2010-07-29 6:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-30 12:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-31 4:47 ` Ken Hori
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1280385826.20966.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-29 9:50 ` rustom
2010-07-29 10:02 ` Elena
[not found] ` <35282104-5b51-4ba4-8745-4fae239ce0ee@q21g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-30 5:29 ` Fren Zeee
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