From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 07:38:02 -0700 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> <6FC095B3-5F73-4E17-B2EB-BE9F98E2009E@gmail.com> <87fu2jh8ds.fsf@mbork.pl> <878t8bgclv.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527086190 25583 195.159.176.226 (23 May 2018 14:36:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 14:36:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, brandelune@gmail.com To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 16:36:26 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 1fLUsL-0006RI-TJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 16:36:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33803 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLUuN-0000Uq-Sf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLUuE-0000Sk-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLUuD-0007df-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fLUu9-0007bj-RS; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:50547) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fLUu0-0006Id-MC; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0586821D46; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:08 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9D84EE43E8; Wed, 23 May 2018 10:38:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878t8bgclv.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Wed, 23 May 2018 07:33:43 +0200") Mail-Followup-To: Marcin Borkowski , rms@gnu.org, brandelune@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:225601 Archived-At: >>>>> "MB" == Marcin Borkowski writes: >> > BTW, I once had an idea to write a "next step" book on Emacs Lisp, one > >> that could be read after the Intro. >> >> How about adding that mew material as the start of the Emacs Lisp Reference >> Manual? MB> There are several reasons I don't think this is a good idea. I have a reason why I disagree with this comment. ;) -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2