From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:10:58 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqts9wjx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148163101 24814 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2006 22:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 22:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 00:11:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZfe-0000mp-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:11:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZfd-0004aL-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZfS-0004aG-J7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZfR-0004a4-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhZfR-0004a1-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhZj4-00009O-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FhZfQ-0006Zk-B6; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 938521C27933; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:10:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 20 May 2006 23:54:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54895 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > >>> - Move "Find Emacs Packages" to under "Search Documentation" >>> >> >> Does not belong there. >> > Maybe you are right, but is it not documentation you are searching > for in "Find Emacs Packages"? No. Not every information is documentation. It would be more fitting in "About Emacs", but still not 100%, as it talks about parts of Emacs instead of Emacs as a whole. >>> Another complaint was that the manual is not easily available in >>> HTML which is the "standard" today. Could perhaps the Emacs Info >>> node start with a link to a description of how to get the manual in >>> HTML format? >>> >> >> Not a good idea since the navigation in HTML is much worse than in >> info-mode. >> > Maybe not for a novice? We don't want to lead users into dead ends, even if it is easy to do. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum