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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
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Rusi |
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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals |
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Mon, 11 May 2015 21:07:36 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 11:40:12 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > No, those are not use cases for a *tutorial*. Those are use cases for
> > a demo or a user guide or an introduction/overview.
>
> I disagree. Someone who's interested in trying out Emacs might like to
> write some Python code (say), and might be better served by a tutorial
> that showcases what Emacs can do in that specific context, focusing on
> how to use various features like completion, eldoc, interaction with an
> inferior process, installing new ELPA packages, looking up help,
> tweaking the indentation rules, ...
Around the time org mode manual crossed the 200(?) page mark there was some
talk of having a mini-manual or something like that
At that time I suggested that since org is a world in itself
a bunch of intros targeted at specific audiences may be a good idea:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg00660.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-02/msg00197.html
Since emacs is a superset of org half dozen emacs-intros from different slants
could certainly help
- Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals, Stefan Monnier, 2015/05/11
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- RE: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals, Drew Adams, 2015/05/11
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