From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation
Date: 20 Jan 2004 10:47:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5y8s3t0hd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.978.1074588520.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
> So I think whatever juvenile and unprofessional attitude follows
> from this, it's been out there for so long that nothing can now
> change our image in people's eyes, and any damage it could have
> possibly done to the free software movement is already done.
Only if nobody bothers reading a manual nowadays that he has not
already read and memorized before.
I do get this impression sometimes, but then where would the point be
in maintaining manuals in the first place?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-17 22:30 Variant spellings in GNU Emacs documentation Reuben Thomas
2004-01-18 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-18 22:28 ` Reuben Thomas
2004-01-19 20:12 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.865.1074453744.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-18 23:16 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-19 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.883.1074493658.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-19 6:51 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-19 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-19 12:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-01-20 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.969.1074573915.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-20 7:39 ` Barry Margolin
2004-01-20 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-20 14:07 ` Sam Steingold
[not found] ` <mailman.978.1074588520.928.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-20 9:47 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-01-20 22:31 ` Barry Margolin
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