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Re: Guile in Emacs
From: |
Helmut Eller |
Subject: |
Re: Guile in Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:45:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
* David Kastrup [2010-04-15 11:06+0200] writes:
> <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> David> Did you bother to read my posting to its end before replying to the
>> David> first sentence? I should think that I already addressed this.
>>
>> My apologies if I have misunderstood something; I did read all of the
>> mail.
>>
>> You wrote in the second paragraph:
>>
>>> Otherwise, only programmers can be expected to be able to use it. One
>>> reason for that is that non-Emacs specific Lisp manuals will not focus
>>> about how to get things done with Emacs. Applying a manual utterly
>>> without editing focus to editing tasks is quite a large intellectual
>>> feat.
>>
>> I would imagine that the system came with several manuals, a generic
>> one for common lisp (for instance the hyperspec) and a more emacs
>> specific one for the editing libraries (such as the buffer related
>> functions).
>>
>> Why would it make a big difference whether (say) `loop' and
>> `current-buffer' appear in different manuals as long as both are
>> available in the system and there are some appropriate top-level
>> index/search/contents/reading-guide support for the user?
>
> Because the language specific manual would have no constructs and no
> examples using any editor-specific data structures or any
> editor-specific tasks.
>
> But that's actually more or less a paraphrase of the "Otherwise, [...]"
> paragraph above again. I don't see anything in your reply that would
> address that.
Guile supposedly supports multiple languages, like Scheme, Python and
Javascript. So who writes the manual for Python and Javascript?
Helmut
- Re: Guile in Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Bruce Stephens, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/14
- RE: Guile in Emacs, Drew Adams, 2010/04/14
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs,
Helmut Eller <=
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- RE: Guile in Emacs, Drew Adams, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Jeff Clough, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Jeff Clough, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Lennart Borgman, 2010/04/15
- RE: Guile in Emacs, Drew Adams, 2010/04/15
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Jeff Clough, 2010/04/16
- Re: Guile in Emacs, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/16
- Re: Guile in Emacs, Jeff Clough, 2010/04/16