[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs status update

Elliott Roper elliott at yrl.co.uk
Thu Oct 29 13:43:15 EDT 2020



> On 29 Oct 2020, at 01:43, Win Treese <treese at acm.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 28, 2020, at 6:30 PM, Elliott Roper <elliott at yrl.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> I'd love to help any way I can. For the documentation update, I assume you'd prefer to leave it as an Info thing, just make stuff clearer? Is there any desire to get the wiki up to date? Is there any desire to produce a pdf book in the style of the Emacs manual with a focus on Aquamacs and macOS differences? I could put my LaTeX blundering to good use there. <grin>
> 
> For anyone interested in helping with documentation: 
> 
> I think there are 4 main places of Aquamacs documentation that might use some attention:
> 
> 1. The aquamacs.org web site content
> 2. The Aquamacs manual, which is distributed as a PDF document from LaTeX source (Help->Aquamacs manual, or in the distributed DMG). The LaTeX source is in the aquamacs/doc/latex directory in the source code on GitHub.
> 3. The Aquamacs FAQ and Wiki on the Emacs Wiki : https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AquamacsEmacs and https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AquamacsFAQ
> 4. The Info pages bundled with Aquamacs (we don’t actually document anything there, as far as I can tell)
> 
> Contributions, updates, and suggestions for changes on any of those can be provided by:
> 
> 1. Pages on the Emacs Wiki - anyone can edit there
> 2. By GitHub issue or pull request for:
> 	- the website: use https://github.com/aquamacs-emacs/aquamacs-web-site
> 	- the manual or Info pages: https://github.com/aquamacs-emacs/aquamacs-emacs
> 3. Email to aquamacs-bugs at aquamacs.org if the above don’t make sense or you don’t have access
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Win
> 
OK. I'm on it. Before getting too ambitious, my early plan is to get up to speed on how to use GitHub, then look at source docs to see where I can make a positive contribution effectively without getting under everyone's feet. 

Looks like useful fun!

Elliott Roper




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