On the tangent, this may be the 10th article of this kind i've seen, the 1st time it was nice to discover macro shortcuts, now I feel something is wrong.
Emacs documentation is large and well written, yet we discover features with google, it's not even centralized, let's avoid duplication of efforts and reinforce emacswiki. Maybe integrating emacswiki with the standard emacs distribution in some way ? (if it's not done already.. which would render this little rant finally funny)
I'm sure you know this already, but Emacs actually contains its manual in a convenient form: C-h r opens it. There are other help commands that provide plenty of information as well.
The issue isn't a lack of information built-in--Emacs is self-documenting, after all--but that its difficult to prioritize features. The real value in blog posts like this is when they describe features the author really likes coupled with his actual use cases for it.
Ultimately, the author is just a curator in a special Emacs exhibit--he brings out the real gems (from his point of view) and gives us some background on them. I think something like that could be integrated into Emacs--but should it?--by having a "tip of the week" or something like that.
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On the tangent, this may be the 10th article of this kind i've seen, the 1st time it was nice to discover macro shortcuts, now I feel something is wrong.
Emacs documentation is large and well written, yet we discover features with google, it's not even centralized, let's avoid duplication of efforts and reinforce emacswiki. Maybe integrating emacswiki with the standard emacs distribution in some way ? (if it's not done already.. which would render this little rant finally funny)
I'm sure you know this already, but Emacs actually contains its manual in a convenient form: C-h r opens it. There are other help commands that provide plenty of information as well.
The issue isn't a lack of information built-in--Emacs is self-documenting, after all--but that its difficult to prioritize features. The real value in blog posts like this is when they describe features the author really likes coupled with his actual use cases for it.
Ultimately, the author is just a curator in a special Emacs exhibit--he brings out the real gems (from his point of view) and gives us some background on them. I think something like that could be integrated into Emacs--but should it?--by having a "tip of the week" or something like that.