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Re: Specialized Emacs Features ?


From: Jean-Christophe Helary
Subject: Re: Specialized Emacs Features ?
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 22:04:57 +0900

> On Jun 2, 2017, at 21:22, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 21:13:18 +0900
>> 
>> What's the point of having a separate document for those "specialized" (?) 
>> features?
> 
> To make the printed Emacs user manual smaller.

It makes sense. But it's not clear what's the line between what is 
"specialized" and what is not...
If we want to make a smaller printed manual it seems to me there are other 
chapters that we can move out to a "specialized" manual.

For ex. (with a few chapters moved around):

Standard Manual:

• 1 The Organization of the Screen
• 2 Kinds of User Input
• 3 Keys
• 4 Keys and Commands
• 5 Entering Emacs
• 6 Exiting Emacs
• 52 Quitting and Aborting
• 46 Saving Emacs Sessions
• 10 Help

• 18 File Handling
• 7 Basic Editing Commands
• 22 International Character Set Support
• 16 Commands for Fixing Typos
• 15 Searching and Replacement
• 43 Sorting Text
• 24 Indentation
• 11 The Mark and the Region
• 12 Killing and Moving Text
• 13 Registers
• 17 Keyboard Macros
• 47 Recursive Editing Levels
• 42 Printing Hard Copies
• 30 Dired, the Directory Editor

• 8 The Minibuffer
• 9 Running Commands by Name
• 40 Running Shell Commands from Emacs

• 14 Controlling the Display
• 19 Using Multiple Buffers
• 20 Multiple Windows
• 21 Frames and Graphical Displays

• 23 Major and Minor Modes
• 25 Commands for Human Languages
• 26 Editing Programs
• 27 Compiling and Testing Programs
• 28 Maintaining Large Programs
• 29 Abbrevs
• 44 Editing Pictures
• 45 Editing Binary Files
• 37 Document Viewing
• 48 Hyperlinking and Navigation Features
• 49 Other Amusements

• 35 Host Security
• 36 Network Security
• 41 Using Emacs as a Server

• 53 Dealing with Emacs Trouble
• 54 Reporting Bugs
• 55 Contributing to Emacs Development
• 56 How To Get Help with GNU Emacs

Moved to Specialized manual
• 31 The Calendar and the Diary
• 32 Sending Mail
• 33 Reading Mail with Rmail
• 34 Gnus
• 38 Web Browsing with EWW
• 39 Embedded WebKit Widgets
• 50 Emacs Lisp Packages
• 51 Customization

Jean-Christophe 




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