From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Do we need a "Stevens" book? Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:15:28 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291859293 8892 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 01:48:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:48:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 02:48:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQVc9-0003WR-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQVc9-0004kW-Be for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:48:09 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="q8gLPzp46U2R+2DD9zVgGw"; logging-data="23788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181OL+N2P19/a9L2TH+/vuw" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KksvSkbW6ZM4W18ABNNRubqrR7w= sha1:wO+245WZUWIDnu0v1pKcfXWMxpQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180163 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76413 Archived-At: > 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