Sometimes one gets the strangest ideas. I’ve had this kicking around in my brain for a few weeks. Since you read and re-read books to kids endless times anyway, why not learn more yourself along the way? For example, Emacs is something that is worth repeated learning. You forget commands, you rediscover them, you dig into them more. I think it might be interesting to have kid’s books with technical subtext. While you’re saying the letters and helping kids learn to read, you can silently (or not-so-silently!) read the notes, and pick one command to try later. In this case: M-x apropos?

A is for apropos

Here's a list of interesting possibilities:

• apropos
• browse-kill-ring
• customize / compile / calc
• dired, debug-on-entry
• edebug-defun, eshell
• fastnav, ffap, fixup-whitespace
• grep-find, gnus
• help-with-help, helm
• ielm
• just-one-space
• keyboard macros, kmacro-start-macro, kbd-macro-query
• load-library, locate-library, list-packages
• magit, make-indirect-buffer
• name-last-kbd-macro
• occur (and occur-edit-mode); org
• package-list-packages, picture-mode
• quick-url, query-replace-regexp-eval
• regexp-builder, recursive-edit, recover-this-file,
• savehist-mode, server-start, smartparens
• tags-search, term, thumbs, tmm-menubar, type-break
• undo-tree-visualize
• vc-next-action, view-lossage, visual-line-mode
• where-is, winner-mode, windmove, window-configuration-to-register
• M-x (execute-extended-command)
• yank-pop
• zap-to-char

Crazy? Neat? =) What do you think?