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: bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byte-compile-file' Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:31:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83io9ywop0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <23829743-922e-4304-8ab3-b762b8193860@default> <74y4iytdjg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83pp49zb03.fsf@gnu.org> <83egkpyvvd.fsf@gnu.org> <83si94xrcn.fsf@gnu.org> <55991ADF.8070208@yandex.ru> <83pp46wu2z.fsf@gnu.org> <5599450F.4050609@yandex.ru> <83mvzaws3s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436113948 28014 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2015 16:32:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 16:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 18:32:19 2015 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 1ZBmq3-0005W7-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:32:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBmq2-0002JJ-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBmps-0002JE-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBmpp-0000eO-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:49167) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBmpo-0000e6-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NR000G00W6DHB00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:32:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NR000GTTWLFDS40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:32:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:187728 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > bruce.connor.am@gmail.com > Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:27:48 -0400 > > > That's not the use case I was talking about. Looking up questions > > already asked means using a search engine, which will find the answers > > wherever they are, be it on gnu.emacs.help of stack-overflow. > > No, the curating (tagging, voting, and editing) makes a significant > difference: you don't need to read N different messages (hopefully > connected via threading) to get the overall picture. The answers on Stack-overflow present discussion as well. And at least I always read everything there, not just the "best" answer. > When I search (via, say, DuckDuckGo) for answers to a particular > problem, I generally find that the answers I find in stackoverflow are > generally more directly usable and of higher quality than what I may > find elsewhere. Then we may wish to make our answers better and more usable as well. Again, if we want to; it doesn't sound to me people are too enthusiastic about this.