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> From: Nic <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:10:16 +0100
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> How about just publishing an extra manual with the information in it
> needed for programmers?

Since most Emacs users are programmers, I doubt that this would be a
useful partition.  That is, the number of places where we would need
to handle duplication will be very large.

On top of that, some advanced features are not only for programmers,
i.e. they are not directly related to any programmer-only activities.