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Re: Specialized Emacs Features ?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Specialized Emacs Features ?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:55:57 +0300

> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 00:11:53 +0900
> 
> Now, forward to the structure of the current manual... Let's say we keep the 
> separation between "normal" and "specialized" as far as the printed copies 
> are concerned, we can still rearrange the way the manual is structured right 
> now to put related features together and get rid of that silly "advanced 
> features" section:
> 
> • 1 The Organization of the Screen
> • 2 Kinds of User Input
> • 3 Keys
> • 4 Keys and Commands
> • 5 Entering Emacs
> • 6 Exiting Emacs
> • 52 Quitting and Aborting
> • 46 Saving Emacs Sessions
> • 10 Help
> 
> • 8 The Minibuffer
> • 9 Running Commands by Name
> • 40 Running Shell Commands from Emacs
> 
> • 18 File Handling
> • 7 Basic Editing Commands
> • 22 International Character Set Support
> • 16 Commands for Fixing Typos
> • 15 Searching and Replacement
> • 43 Sorting Text
> • 24 Indentation
> • 11 The Mark and the Region
> • 12 Killing and Moving Text
> • 13 Registers
> • 17 Keyboard Macros
> • 47 Recursive Editing Levels
> • 30 Dired, the Directory Editor
> • 42 Printing Hard Copies
> 
> • 14 Controlling the Display
> • 19 Using Multiple Buffers
> • 20 Multiple Windows
> • 21 Frames and Graphical Displays
> 
> • 23 Major and Minor Modes
> • 25 Commands for Human Languages
> • 31 The Calendar and the Diary
> • 26 Editing Programs
> • 27 Compiling and Testing Programs
> • 28 Maintaining Large Programs
> • 29 Abbrevs
> • 44 Editing Pictures
> • 45 Editing Binary Files
> • 37 Document Viewing
> • 48 Hyperlinking and Navigation Features
> • 49 Other Amusements
> 
> • 35 Host Security
> • 36 Network Security
> • 32 Sending Mail
> • 33 Reading Mail with Rmail
> • 34 Gnus
> • 38 Web Browsing with EWW
> • 39 Embedded WebKit Widgets
> • 41 Using Emacs as a Server
> 
> • 50 Emacs Lisp Packages
> • 51 Customization
> 
> • 53 Dealing with Emacs Trouble
> • 54 Reporting Bugs
> • 55 Contributing to Emacs Development
> • 56 How To Get Help with GNU Emacs

Could you explain what principles led to this order?  It looks strange
to me to have, for example, "Saving Emacs Sessions" before "Basic
Editing Commands", or "Sorting Text" before "Killing and Moving text".



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