From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:44:54 +0300 Message-ID: <835yl910gp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h74ztshe.fsf@gmx.de> <871qw31ois.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee038ipt.fsf@gmx.de> <87o7z61v59.fsf@gmail.com> <87bkv527p5.fsf@gmail.com> <835yld93w7.fsf@gnu.org> <877d5t0yrn.fsf@gmail.com> <87r140yuof.fsf@gmail.com> <875yl9e7zm.fsf@gmail.com> <83czfh12kp.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmjhghu2.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8344"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 10 08:50:41 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nzYTg-0001z2-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:50:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38110 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzYTf-0001CZ-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzYOC-0007vw-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:45:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzYOB-0003lc-OO; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:44:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=vo2kwXlbkMv3PL7NOnb0pVomxmG0QcY08qcUzU7q6Mc=; b=jY1YpzI1XoYl fTveGrOKnG6AX0/oUT6JgfAq5SFkTDby3k8wQUnGorFPOIoOgMZG7YAWY9MCSs1xcpgI1ffP7lo8C EYwtRCT0fYQ9ELARAoYL5G1urBx23q8I3+sCl31hzcZSSJ2bz0a+Hz/e+56mEro+ZmI6vKnvxGsbI 2Heik2Eif1OvYhqzO5V6irbivHeiwKVYfLJQVSabfInC+LVm3llReNevjUlx3ACJbkl3bpmaLuY8i iG7wU2LixcW8YZro4ewzJfmPTrOts6WnE1vc02PaQdCcS0Dn0NYPfHboRuqVEFNPXPtXCPZpuMyTU fFnbJKmyYXeqCX++evJNGQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3197 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzYO8-0008DY-7Y; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:44:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pmjhghu2.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:20:37 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:290989 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: Tim Cross , rms@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:20:37 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> I"m also not convinced that org mode would be the right solution for > >> Emacs documentation. > > > > Then why Org's own manual is written in Org instead of Texinfo? > > I do not know if Org mode would be a good solution for Emacs > documentation. However, compared to texinfo, our manual is lacking index > entries in all the exported versions but texinfo. Lack of an index makes for a less useful manual, IME. Anyway, is the lack of the index the _only_ missing feature from what the Org markup provides as compared to Texinfo? Tim's message sounded like there are many more omissions.