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Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming |
Date: |
Tue, 22 May 2018 19:57:44 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
On 2018-05-21, at 06:10, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
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>
> > Argument: the popular ways of learning _now_ are blogs (which are the
> > thing of "web 2.0", although nobody seems to be using that term now) and
> > videos (and I think YouTube started the trend of people putting their
> > videos on the Internet).
>
> One cannot refute, or consider, a fragmentary argument. With your
> explanation, I see what the argument consists of and what conclusion
> it tries to demonstrate.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Here is my response to the argument:
>
> That claim may be true for certain kinds of people, for instance young
> people with a technical orientation who do everything by internet. I
> suspect that many of you fit into that category. Most people do not.
>
> The Emacs Lisp Intro, in particular, is aimed at people who don't
> pick things up quickly on the internet.
>
> That said, I would not mind if we offered a video also. Would someone
> like to make one?
Not me. (And BTW, I don't like learning from videos that much.)
> As for "blogs", as far as I know that only means a sort of regular
> series publication, usually not very long. How would this manual
> differ from an item in a blog? Only by size?
I would say that blog posts are much smaller and usually
self-contained. But that is not very precise anyway.
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, (continued)
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/23
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/05/24
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/25
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2018/05/24
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/22
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/20
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/20
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming,
Marcin Borkowski <=
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/22
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/05/18
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/19
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming, Van L, 2018/05/18
- Improve the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual with intro sections, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/18
- Re: Improve the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual with intro sections, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2018/05/19
- Re: Improve the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual with intro sections, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming (was: Making Emacs Manuals Available as PDF Files), Richard Stallman, 2018/05/17
- Re: update intro to Emacs Lisp programming (was: Making Emacs Manuals Available as PDF Files), Van L, 2018/05/18