Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-02-11, at 08:58, Jean-Christophe Helary 
<jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 15:57, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-02-11, at 00:27, Jean-Christophe Helary 
>> <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Feb 11, 2018, at 4:47, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> My idea is to first explain the
>>>> basic concepts of Emacs, and then proceed to AUCTeX and various ways of
>>>> customizing Emacs.  I would be very glad if some more experienced Emacs
>>>> (and TeX) user could read my paper and suggest any enhancements.
>>> 
>>> May I suggest that you put the introduction to Emacs in an annex at the end 
>>> of the article? Or even, since there are tons of introductions to emacs 
>>> concepts, why not refer to them instead of writing your own ?
>> 
>> Maybe you misunderstood me.
>
> Very likely :)
>
>>  I do not want to put Yet Another Intro to
>> Emacs™ there.  I just want to explain (on, say, half a page) what Emacs
>> is and what are its core ideas, and introduce the language of buffers
>> and modes, so that the readers will know what I'm talking about later.
>
> But then, either the user knows what emacs is about and the half page will be 
> redundant, or does not and then the half page won't be enough.

I'm not convinced.  I'll think about it.  Thanks for your input anyway!

> But it really all depends on how you write that so I won't say more, besides 
> that I'd love to help with the proofreading!

Stay tuned!

-- 
Marcin Borkowski