From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Low-stress useful project
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:58:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060811085803.GC1233@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GBGzX-0003FL-CD@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hi, Richard!
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:18:55PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> The Eshell manual, eshell.texi, is less than half complete. Would
> people who work on Eshell like to work on adding what is missing?
> Maybe some parts can be copied from the Bash manual and then adapted
> to fit Eshell.
With all due respect to everybody, and so on, but the Bash manual, the
last time I looked at it[*], didn't seem to be one of the better manuals
in the GNU system. It is short on examples, doesn't seem well
organized, and I found it maddeningly difficult to find out about basic
things (how do you write a `while' loop?) a few years back when I was
learning bash. The bash man page is much more coherent. I would
suggest NOT using the bash manual as a basis for eshell.texi.
[*] Version 2.5b, 15th July 2002
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-11 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 20:18 Low-stress useful project Richard Stallman
2006-08-11 8:58 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2006-08-12 14:28 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-12 17:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2006-08-12 7:28 Mikiya Matsuzaka
2006-08-12 22:01 ` T. V. Raman
2006-08-13 6:43 Mikiya Matsuzaka
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