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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252612 Archived-At: On 7/1/20 10:47 AM, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > I'm really someone who's not familiar with how our manuals are > organized. So every time I'd need to make a significant addition, I have to > research that first. And that's like 3x the work. I also find that writing documentation often takes way more work than writing the corresponding code, partly for the reasons you give. But that's part of the job. If I invent something but don't communicate it well to other people, I haven't really finished my invention. I do understand the frustration, though.