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Re: Some ideas with Emacs
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Some ideas with Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:55:00 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
On 2019-12-07, at 03:13, Ag Ibragimov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri 06 Dec 2019 at 10:30, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>
> I agree with that. However, I think "Elisp recipes" or "Elisp cookbook" is
> exactly what we need and what's missing.
> You see, Emacs Lisp usually is not learned traditional way, you don't sit
> down with a book that slowly explains concepts from the elementary to more
> advanced topics. Also people don't do emacs-lisp "katas" or "koans". Usually
> one gets into emacs-lisp when the need arises for solving a problem. It's not
> that difficult to find help these days, people are always happy to help you,
> we have r/emacs, mailing lists, emacs.stackexchange, various Gitter, Slack
> and IRC channels, etc.
> But sometimes you don't even know you had a problem, until someone shows you
> a solution to it. I think that kind of book, collective community effort
> would be awesome to have.
I think that I could agree with that, though I personally like a more
structured exposition.
> But your point about a book that tells a story is also very valid. It would
> be absolutely amazing to have a book written by a single person or small
> group of co-authors, something titled like "Joy of Emacs" ("Joy of GNU/Emacs"
> if you're so pedantic) where it also describes philosophy of the language,
> historical context, contemplates about the future of the language, etc.
Now that you wrote that, I think this is really an amazing idea. I am
a bit afraid I do not know enough about Emacs - and my plan is a bit
more humble anyway - but thanks for inspiration.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
- Re: Some ideas with Emacs, (continued)
Re: Some ideas with Emacs, Ag Ibragimov, 2019/12/03
Re: Some ideas with Emacs, Ag Ibragimov, 2019/12/06
RE: Some ideas with Emacs, Drew Adams, 2019/12/06
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Re: Some ideas with Emacs, VanL, 2019/12/10