From: "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com>
Subject: Re: GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:10:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2003.04.17.20.10.24.877368@dzr-web.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5l3ckgnbe2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:59:17 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs will tell you how to get the
> CVS code where you can find the etc/NEWS file, the manuals,
> the source elisp code, ...
>
> You'll immediately see that the NEWS file is right now just a long list
> of things with no structure and is thus inconvenient for new users
> who can't easily skip things they're not interested in.
>
> You can also read, re-read, re-re-read the manual and send us patches
> for typos, or point out places where the doc is difficult to understand,
> or incomplete, or out-of-date, or plain wrong.
>
> Same thing for the docstrings, of course. Passing the various elisp
> packages through ispell is also a good idea. Passing them through
> checkdoc-current-buffer is also a good idea (although it requires more
> skill and judgment to decide whether a warning should be fixed or not).
>
> You can do the proofread the elisp manual, which will also help
> you to get acquainted with the actual code, so you can start sending
> us patches to the code.
Okay, thanks for the info. I think the NEWS file and the manual are the
obvious places for me to start. I'll be especially suited to pointing out
which bits are hard to understand. I wouldn't hold your breath for any
code patches from me, however!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-17 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-17 12:44 GTK2 support in Emacs 21.3.1? D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 13:54 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-17 14:12 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 15:13 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 17:50 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-17 20:10 ` D. D. Brierton [this message]
2003-04-18 1:55 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <mailman.4838.1050631104.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-18 3:02 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 16:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-17 17:19 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-17 17:34 ` Glenn Morris
2003-04-17 17:39 ` D. D. Brierton
2003-04-17 20:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-18 16:14 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-04-24 14:01 ` d2003xx
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