From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Shouldn't directory-abbrev-alist be in Emacs manual? Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: <87ve4cwu86.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203978381 8190 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2008 22:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:26:21 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 23:26:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTlm9-0000uf-29 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:26:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTlld-00045k-7C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:25:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTllY-00044b-1K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JTllW-00043D-IY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTllW-000431-Cc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:25:42 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTllW-0005RT-7n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:25:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JTllM-0008Tr-HW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:25:32 +0000 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:25:32 +0000 Original-Received: from cyd by cyd.mit.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:25:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cyd.mit.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uHAE1k4LW0H7zoauEz+XlO3rhPQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17595 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > It is a user option. It is described in the Elisp manual, but not in > the Emacs manual, where users might want to know about it. After thinking about this a little, I feel that it's too much of a niche option to warrant mentioning in the Emacs manual, which after all doesn't aim to document every single user option. Does anyone feel strongly that it should be discussed in the manual?