From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <837fxjovxd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fvc8kdsp.fsf@gnu.org> <6e11cd85-09a0-4b7a-baa2-0c810bdebbce@default> <871tnsg0w7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834msoqrsg.fsf@gnu.org> <5498C82D.5080605@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419307402 23518 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 04:03:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 04:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, adatgyujto@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 05:03:14 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 1Y3Ggk-0001Zm-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:03:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42983 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Ggj-0000I9-Ng for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3GgT-0000Hw-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3GgO-0001N0-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:55817) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3GgO-0001Mw-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 23:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NH000L00NOLVE00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:00:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NH000KR9OH0E030@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:00:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <5498C82D.5080605@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:180533 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:41:01 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: Eli Zaretskii , Tom , > Emacs-Devel devel > > Just today, for example, I needed to come up to speed on how composite glyphs > work in Emacs, a topic I knew little about; at first I didn't even remember what > they were. So now we are down to saying Info is not good because it cannot find information that no one cared to write in a manual? How reasonable is that? Did you never happen to search in Google for information that simply isn't there? When all you get is hits in acronym lists and irrelevant sites in Chinese? Does that mean Google is good for nothing?