From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 09:31:12 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141208143112.GA7426@thyrsus.com> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418049101 23402 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 14:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 14:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 15:31:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxzLb-0003Qu-UK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:31:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxzLb-0006Ju-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:31:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxzLK-0006JH-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxzLF-0004f4-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:31:18 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39713 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxzLF-0004eu-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 89D88C0081; Mon, 8 Dec 2014 09:31:12 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179390 Archived-At: Tom : > I often use google to lookup something which I also have locally,because > usually it is much faster. Even for emacs docs. Google does word stemming > and alternatives, so if you search for something related "modification" > then google also finds matches with "changing", "altering", etc. > > So if you don't know the exact wording of what you are looking for > then google is faster most of the time. > > Info, for example, cannot do this, so it is faster only if you already > know what you are looking for, you know the exact term, etc. In other > cases, when looking up something new and unfamiliar in the docs, using > Google is usually more efficient. When I speak of info as being a documentation ghetto, this is one of the main issues I have in mind. -- Eric S. Raymond