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Re: Colorizing 'emacs-lisp' when it is exported?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Colorizing 'emacs-lisp' when it is exported?
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:52:38 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

>> For once, google has drawn a blank, unfortunately!
>
> Emacs is self-documenting.  If you are serious about
> using Emacs you will ditch google (and even
> Emacswiki).

In Emacs-utopia perhaps.

Emacs is not really "self-documenting". There is a
clever help mode that immediately gets access to the
Elisp docstrings, function prototypes, and more (and
this is made possible but the dynamic nature of
Emacs/Lisp).

*And* there are manuals included (shipped with Emacs,
or obtainable and then possible to integrate).

As for the included manuals, there is nothing amazing
about that, and that was very common before the
Internet: an on-line manual (i.e., a manual that wasn't
on paper) was shipped with the software.

This is all very practical and in combination with the
elaborate Emacs interface to access it all it makes for
a great thing, but not so great so you in general can
"ditch" Google (or the Internet) and be better off.

As always, it comes down to not only what it is, but
even more so how you use it.

-- 
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united:  http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573


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