From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:07:08 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2914-Sat20Mar2004160708+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200403191515.i2JFFii25594@f7.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079791905 29091 80.91.224.253 (20 Mar 2004 14:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 20 15:11:28 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4hCC-0002O9-00 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:11:28 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4hCC-0001Vo-00 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:11:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hBn-000715-Tq for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hBC-0006sR-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hAf-0006fw-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hAf-0006fO-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.144.65]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.5-GR) with ESMTP id CPV15175; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:09:17 +0200 (IST) Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200403191515.i2JFFii25594@f7.net> (karl@freefriends.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20640 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20640 > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:15:44 -0500 > From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) > > Why cannot they say > info libc FUNCTION > > 1) then users have to know what manual to look in. Doesn't sound a big problem to me: someone who looks for a library function can manage to remember that they come from libc. > 2) in practice, manuals don't contain every function in their top-level > menu, to my knowledge. They usually do so in the Detailed Menu. If not, they should. In any case, if we want Info to look up arguments in the indices, naming a particular manual in whose indices to look makes this job practical, while looking in _all_ manuals is not, IMHO.