From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaidheeswaran C Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:00:09 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj5fgpd8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83h9rnp0yy.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj5enihg.fsf@gnu.org> <554EFEFD.6090908@gmail.com> <833834o4rv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431322189 31434 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2015 05:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 05:29:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 07:29:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YrgHb-0007g1-BC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 07:29:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrgHa-0003Ko-KN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrgHQ-0003Ki-AN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:29:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrgHN-00084S-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrgHM-00081z-Rj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 01:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YrgHK-0007bq-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 07:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 223.229.186.71 ([223.229.186.71]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 07:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju by 223.229.186.71 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 May 2015 07:29:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 223.229.186.71 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <833834o4rv.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104361 Archived-At: On Sunday 10 May 2015 08:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 12:17:25 +0530 >> From: Vaidheeswaran C >> >> Someone suggested http://everypageispageone.com/the-book/. >> >> What I call as "A Book", may not in actuality be a book as it is >> conventionally understood and consumed. > > Then what is it? And why would people want to use it, instead of > googling? > > Without some "glue", there's no added value to a book that just brings > together unsorted tops that are already available on the Web. > > You can help me define the "glue". First, I need to understand what the Thesis of the Book (I was recommended) is. I don't want to talk based on a __mere supposition__ of what the Book is advocating.