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Re: emacs-27 fda6009: Minor copyedits of Emacs manual
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-27 fda6009: Minor copyedits of Emacs manual |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:45:17 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:30:36 +0200
>
> > Emacs comes with an introductory online tutorial available in many
> > -languages. This book picks up where that tutorial ends. It explains
> > -the full range of Emacs's power and contains reference material useful
> > -to expert users.
> > +languages, and this manual picks up where that tutorial ends. It
> > +explains the full range of the power of Emacs, now up to @strong{version
> > +27.2}, and contains reference material useful to expert users. It
> > +also includes appendices with specific material about X and GTK
> > +resources, and with details for users of macOS and Microsoft Windows.
>
> I think the final sentence here could be left out. The appendices
> aren't super exciting or important in themselves, and the paragraph as
> a whole carries more punch without it. Just my two cents.
It's a marketing thing, not a technical one. The text comes from a
person who manages the next printing of the Emacs manual for the FSF
shop.