Talk:Emacs

= Opinions =

What is this book for
I think it's important to have an idea of the scope of this book.

We need to bear in mind that sources like emacswiki already exist, as well as quite good reference material and many blogs.

What book could we create
Some defining factors of this book could include:


 * That it is wikibooks
 * That it is free
 * That it targets a particular audience (e.g existing programmers, real beginners, people coming from IDE land)
 * A very strong narrative / tone / philsophy that makes the book compelling are prevents it being a mere collection of facts

What I think this book should be
I think a book that thinks of itself as a "step zero" introduction to what you need to know to use emacs is a good aim. I think it should have a strong philosophy to hold together disparate topic, a think this philsophy is the "turing complete editor", the view that emacs is a minimal programming language for writing a test editor.

This risks skirting the NPOV views, but I feel this is the way that this book can be useful as a general book

(18:02, 9 October 2016 (UTC))