From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:56:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200605220256.k4M2uLIC026496@jane.dms.auburn.edu> References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148266678 16808 80.91.229.2 (22 May 2006 02:57:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 02:57:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 22 04:57:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi0cE-0006a6-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 May 2006 04:57:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi0cE-0007d2-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 22:57:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi0c2-0007cx-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 22:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi0c0-0007cl-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 22:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fi0c0-0007ci-Pc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 22:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fi0fs-0001ZE-5e; Sun, 21 May 2006 23:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from jane.dms.auburn.edu (jane.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.201]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4M2vb65002001; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:57:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jane.dms.auburn.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jane.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4M2uL2Q026499; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:56:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by jane.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/Submit) id k4M2uLIC026496; Sun, 21 May 2006 21:56:21 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: jane.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 21 May 2006 22:38:29 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54998 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: Also, what it finds is not documentation. What it finds is packages. ~C-h p' eventually leads to the commentary section of the packages' source file, which is supposed to be documentation of the package. For many features, this is the only documentation they have. So `C-h p' is an essential complement to the Emacs manual, which has not enough room to document all features. Sincerely, Luc.