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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 13:38:35 +0300

> From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 14:48:55 +0530
> 
> If the tutorial is just a handout and the manual is a Handbook, the
> "Emacs Book" will be a handy-book, full of tips and tricks and lot
> less intimadting.

I think you will find out that building a book based on tips and tricks
for a package as large and complex as Emacs is a sure way to a book
that won't be read.  There's no reasonable way of describing the
multitude of tricks and tips in any organized way.  So in effect you
will have a hodgepodge of unrelated stuff, impossible to read _as_ a
book, and useful only for finding the particular trick one wants --
for which Google is  much better method.

A book must have some methodology and some didactic principles
behind its organization and structure.  It must describe its subject
in some methodical way.  Building on tips and tricks is therefore an
antithesis of a book.



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