Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 12:02:07 +0100
>> 
>> I did start work on this a while back, actually. I was going to wait
>> till I got to the a point of completion, but as the argument has come up
>> again, I've stuck my working version up.
>> 
>> https://github.com/phillord/emacs-tutorial.git
>
> Thanks, but it includes little more than description of the UI basics:
> windows, frames, the mode line, etc.  Even if we agree that this is
> the right methodology (and I personally don't like tutorials that
> require me to read too much before I can do something with the
> package), "the meat" is not there yet.  So it's hard to say what will
> this look like when it's closer to completion.

Sure, I agree. I did say it was a work in progress.

I talk about the UI basics because you have to know what "buffer" means
or the menu makes little sense ("Buffers" or "Eval Buffer" from python).
And it does assume from the start that you are using a graphical display
system. The current tutorial gets onto those in line 974 (give or take a
bit).

Phil