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 05:58:08 +0200 Message-ID: <838uhzow4v.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> <833887r8qn.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppbbprfh.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnmv5hkn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419307131 20068 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 03:58:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 03:58:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: adatgyujto@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 04:58:44 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 1Y3GcN-0007PZ-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 04:58:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3GcM-0007ca-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Gc7-0007ae-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Gc2-00007w-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:58:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:54608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3Gc1-00007s-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NH000G00NBVGX00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:50:28 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NH000IJ1O037500@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:50:28 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87bnmv5hkn.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:180532 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Tom , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:35:20 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > You can add these alternatives to the index, but in practice you > > > can't compete with google with a manually compiled index, because > > > you can add just so many alternatives, while google does the same > > > mechanically and intelligently (stemming, thesaurus, etc.), so > > > it will always have an advantage. > > > > So let's add such a front end to Emacs as well. Should be a nice > > project, I think. > > The problem is how do you assemble the results into an "index" for the > manual? That's one issue that needs to be solved as part of the project.