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: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:44:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjafpu3b.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> <87k31ki3tc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419263128 462 80.91.229.3 (22 Dec 2014 15:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, 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 Mon Dec 22 16:45:21 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 1Y35Ab-0007PR-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y35Ab-0003XR-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:45:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y35AK-0003VU-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y35AE-00041y-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:45196) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y35AE-00041q-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:44:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGZ00000Q591Z00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:44:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGZ00NJPQES4750@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:44:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87k31ki3tc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:180506 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > Tom , > Emacs-Devel devel > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:41:51 +0900 > > I use Google a lot for various different purposes, and yes, it has an > excellent thesaurus behind it. You *can* just type "emacs cut" into > Google and expect to get almost as good results as "emacs kill" in > many circumstances. For comparison, in an Emacs manual, typing "i cut RET" gets you to a section named ``"Cut and Paste" Operations on Graphical Displays''. > (But not in this case. I get completely > different results, oriented to very different audiences. By contrast, the above simple use of 'i' puts me _exactly_ where I want to be.