From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 23:54:47 +0200 Message-ID: <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148162118 22088 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2006 21:55:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 21:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 20 23:55:16 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 1FhZPb-0006dv-VC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 23:55:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZPb-0000QV-97 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZPR-0000Pf-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:54:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZPP-0000PL-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZPP-0000PI-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhZT0-0007Or-Eo; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:58:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.072.1) id 446DC71E0003BE55; Sat, 20 May 2006 23:54:48 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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:54894 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: >> - Just one tutorial entry with two subentries: >> >> Tutorial >> Tutorial in English >> Tutorial in other languages >> >> - Just one bug entry with two subentries: >> >> Emacs Problems and Bugs >> Emacs Known Problems >> Send Bug Report >> > > I don't think it worthwhile to make submenus with just two entries. > It still makes the help menu two entries shorter. That is significant compared to our short memory span which is often said to have a capacity of 5-9 entries. >> - Move "Find Emacs Packages" to under "Search Documentation" >> > > Does not belong there. > Maybe you are right, but is it not documentation you are searching for in "Find Emacs Packages"? > >> Another complaint was that the manual is not easily available in >> HTML which is the "standard" today. Could perhaps the Emacs Info >> node start with a link to a description of how to get the manual in >> HTML format? >> > > Not a good idea since the navigation in HTML is much worse than in > info-mode. > Maybe not for a novice?