Saluton "Run Paint Run Run" :) (Funny nick...)
On Mon 18 May 2009 20:53 +0200, Run Paint Run Run <[email protected]> dixit: > I'm writing a "cookbook" for Vim at http://vim.runpaint.org/ . It's > released under a Creative Commons license in PDF and HTML. First of all, thanks for sharing the book with a "free" license. Thanks for sharing knowledge, for a start :) > If anybody has suggestions or comments, I'd love to hear them. :-) I have just one suggestion, but it is tightly coupled with my way of thinking about this kind of books ;) I think that the perfect place for tips and tricks is a wiki and not a book for one main reasons: the wiki allows readers to improve the tip/trick and update it when needed. It is more "alive" than a book, even if the book is online. For such a mutable thing as a tip'n'trick collection for a piece of software, keeping the book up to date is difficult, and in a wiki the effort is somewhat shared. This said, I'm happy that you wrote the book, because it will be useful, but in my very humble opinion it is better if all the "recipes" are in the Vim wiki. If I had the time to write such a cookbook (and the talent, of course), I think I would dedicate that time (and, again, talent) to the Vim wiki. As I said, it is my opinion and my view about cookbooks/tip'n'tricks or whatever the name, and it doesn't subtract any merit from your book, which I know it has been a big effort. As for the contents of the book, I think that it is very difficult to evaluate or suggest particular things about a cookbook: until I need a particular recipe, I don't know if it will work for me. This is good and bad: it is good because the overall quality of the book will be high, since most of the recipes are well tested and from reliable sources; it is bad because it is very difficult to spot a "bug" or a mistake until somebody actually needs some recipe and finds it doesn't work. In any case, keep the good work and thanks a lot for helping the Vim community :)) -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
