The Emacs World (was: Re: how can I convert the To field to CC)

[Emanuel Berg]

Speaking of books, I've said many times I think we should have
a book called the


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written in a essay-style similar to this [1].

There would be one chapter on ERC, one on Gnus, one on
Emacs-w3m ... it would be like a map over the Emacs,
yes, world!

I can edit such a book - no problem, if so I promise the
following:

1. A great looking book thru and thru

2. All the extra material (chronology, glossary, screenshots
   with captions, releases, stats etc, in Preussian order)

3. No pretentious introduction by Yours Truly (phew)

4. Yours Truly's name not on the cover (aah)

5. Yours Truly's photo not on the back flip (WHAT?
   why ever not?)

And... I now know what you're ALL thinking of right now.
It's an offer you just can't refuse!

But don't say yes right away. Think about it!

[1]
@book{quarter-century-of-unix,
  author     = {Peter Salus},
  isbn       = 0201547775,
  publisher  = {Addison-Wesley},
  title      = {A Quarter Century of UNIX},
  year       = {1994}
}

> Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
>>> [1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/
>>
>>> [2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/gnus/
>>
>> I downloaded manually mail-to-many
>>
>> But the functions are not interactive, so it is not clear
>> to me how to use it.
>
> OT (well, 50/50)
>
> I wrote a small, but very ambitious book a couple of years
> back [1] - lots'a Norwegian people in that book BTW, maybe
> you guys can get it published there? I know how patriotic
> you are :) and you should be with that record, I guess.
> well, if you do, you get the literary agent's 15% for sure -
> anyway I got a list of like 70 or so publishers in Sweden,
> so I wanted to mail a letter and the book to everyone but it
> couldn't look like spam, that's why I wrote it.
> One publishers said, ~"what I great book! but no", the
> others said nothing or "no".
>
> Just a couple of years ago I started translating it into
> EPUB but that just felt bizarre, I started to hate myself
> almost, reading my self-assured blah blah, so I didn't get
> far. Also, the lovely LaTeX IMO (looks like a magazine
> article from the 70s) would be lost. (But my impression was
> irrational. It _is_ a good book, it just felt so
> strange doing!)
>
> So the project itself is what it is right now - gone, but
> not forgotten! (= Borta men inte glömd)
>
> New adventure project:
>
>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/blog/index.html
>
> Can I interest you in a future tree house book?
>
> After that, maybe pick up that old book again. Or what do
> the successful people say - never look back? Right, I'm not
> successful :)
>
> [1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/borta/borta.pdf

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