Re: Some ideas with Emacs

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2019-12-03, at 07:07, Ag Ibragimov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ooohweee, I've lost myself in the weeds of this discussion thread. It seems 
> writing a book about Emacs Lisp is an arduous task (no shit), writing a 
> comprehensive manual is not easy either.
>
> So I thought: what if we start a repository, make a pitch through social 
> platforms, get people interested, and start collecting various elisp recipes. 
> Then after a while, maybe we could form a curated list. After a few, maybe 
> several months, we gather enough material to make a book out of that?
>
> "Emacs Lisp Cookbook" or something?

No.

You may indeed prepare a "cookbook", or a wiki this way - but not
a _book_.  A "book" (as opposed to a wiki, a _cookbook_ or a manual) is
something that _tells a story_.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl