Re: [Hong Feng <address@hidden>] article about GNU Emacs

[fred]

Hi Bill:

> I have a friend who is an author, and uses emacs for all of his book
> editing and technical writing (day job).  I'll check with him and see if he
> would be interested.  Could someone forward me the article that Hong Feng
> referenced?  I didn't see it attached as he says.  Would be a good starting
> point
>

I am very glad to heard about this.

the article of Bram was published on my web site, pls pay a visit to
http://www.rons.net.cn/vim.html, frankly speakly, it is a very nice article,
and I hope someone could write a better one than his about GNU Emacs.

 
> As for the running column on Emacs, I think if 5 or 6 people could do
> round-robin authoring of articles, that might be better than having a
> single author. 

this is a right advice, and I will take it.

> Both in terms of diversity of features that the articles
> cover, and from an availability-of-the-author perspective.  We're all
> really busy, but doing a 1 or 2 page article every 6 months would be
> doable.

I could understand all of you are very busy,  from the developer's side, 2
pages article for every six months should be good. 

> 
> I could contribute an article or two on the dynamic loading that I've
> currently done for XEmacs and keep meaning to do for Emacs.  Ditto for the
> foreign-function interface.  I want to find time over the holidays to make
> this much more portable and not rely on the GTK object system.[1]
> 

Interesting, could you please send me a copy of your article?


> It would be GREAT to have something like a technical track as well,
> explaining the underpinnings of the new redisplay engine, etc, etc.  I
> think this would help more developers feel comfortable working on the core
> C code.  The main reason I do more C level work for XEmacs is that the
> abstractions and semi-OO work they've done makes it easier to understand
> smaller pieces of the code.  Emacs has always been a bit more
> intimidating.
> 

the technical track system could be possible to set on the magazine, if it does
not require to update too frequently (changing daily or weekly).

thanks for your support.
Frederic

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