procj TUTORL1 {tag str} {A0L1 eev/e/tutorial.e.html#$tag $str}



htmlize {eev - main ideas} {

[P (These notes are old - the file is dated 02dec2004)]

[HLIST1 {The main ideas of the eev project}

  [HLIST2 {Saving the world}

    [J Sharing can be more natural than we think]

    [J We can learn more about our environment]

    [J We are part of our environment]

    [J The culture of the \"finished product\"]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {Sharing notes (and the deeper consequences of that)}

    [J Reusing your own notes]

    [J You won't be forced to share your notes, you can just use the
       ones written by others]

    [HLIST2 {All my notes are online (well, almost)}

      [A0L tourism.html A Brief Statement About (Computer) Tourism]

      [J My tourism package (the .tgz with most of my public files\;
        how to install it to create a copy of my environment)]

      [HLIST2 [J [NAME htmlization] How the text files are converted
        to HTML for the web version:]

        [J The `\")' hyperlinks: in [TUTORL lisp_hiperlinks Emacs], in
          [AL {TH/Generate test_links} HTML].]

        [J The `[anchorli2html {} ... {}]' anchors.]

	[J The red stars ([COLOR red [IT *]]) are generally used as
	  [TUTORL delimited_blocks delimiters].]

	[J Other strange chars may look great in [AL eev/glyphs.el
  	  Emacs], especially in [A0L vtutil.html text mode with a
  	  changed font], but they may be impossible to convert to
  	  HTML.]

      ]

    ]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {A sort of point-and-click interface using the keyboard, in
   which:}

    [J A block of text can be interpreted as a block of commands in a
       computer language (actually in almost any computer language)]

    [J Certain lines can work as hyperlinks to pieces of information
       already in your computer (existing docs in essentially any
       format, source code, etc)]

    [J The hyperlink lines can be embedded in the blocks of commands,
       for any language that accepts comments]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {"Computers are machines for automating everything that can
  be automated"}

    [HLIST2 {This idea suits command-line interfaces much better than
      graphical interfaces}

      [J \"[LR
        http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/documents/beginning_CLI.html
        In the Beginning was the Command Line]\", by Neal Stephenson]

    ]

    [HLIST2 {The notion of "user" is artificial}

      [J I've written an (unfinished) essay called \"[A0L
        why-users.html Why Users Should Not Exist]\" on this.]

    ]

    [HLIST2 {Interactive programs with terminal-based interfaces can be
    automated easily}

      [J How that was used to make a demo for eev]

    ]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {Emacs becomes the main interface to the underlying system.
  Other advantages not mentioned before:}

    [J We get a standard way to edit commands (better than readline)]

    [J We keep the original interfaces of programs - no changes are
       required]

    [J Emacs is extensible and easy to study and to play with\; has
       tons of excellent source code in Lisp\; has truly great online
       manuals]

    [J Emacs is also a debugger]

    [J 25 years of knowledge and expertise built-in\; and this by a whole
       community]

    [J it's been [IT the] programmer editor (in parallel with vi) for
       most of that time]

    [J it can even emulate vi :)]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {What does it look like...}

    [J In pure-text interfaces]

    [J In graphical interfaces]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {Does it run on...?}

    [J Non-Debian *NIX-like systems? (Yes, and a few are tested)]

    [HLIST2 {Non-*NIX systems (e.g. Windows and Macs)?}

      [J Where to get Emacs for these systems]

    ]

    [J Other versions of Emacs besides GNU Emacs?]

    [J Other editors, like vi?]

  ]

  [HLIST2 {Current problems on which I'd like to have help:}

    [J Finding the directory where the \".el\"s for the current
      version of Emacs are]

    [J Finding the stem of the info files of the current Emacs (can be
      \"emacs\", \"emacs-e21\", etc)]

    [J I need an easy was to let the user install the Emacs manuals
      that are not present in the system]

    [J Porting to XEmacs]

    [J Bash's behaviour on here-documents in verbose mode is not so
      good as zsh's\; tcsh is even worse IIRC]

    [J Older Expects freak out on char 0's]

  ]

]

}