From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>,
drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:14:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85hcn9rdgl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <umyx1g955.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 08 Aug 2007 21\:43\:02 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:50:52 +0200
>>
>> > There's already a Glossary node in the manual, has been there since
>> > time immemoriam. Is that what you want?
>>
>> Not quite, since it is of little use when one does not expect the term
>> in it.
>
> You should expect any Emacs related terminology to be in the
> Glossary node. I think you will find that it lives up to this
> expectation very well, even for terms such as "iff" that are not
> Emacs-specific.
It does not merely live up to this expectation, but surpasses it by
far. Which is actually the problem. What can we do to make people
_expect_ the explanation to be in the glossary? The hyperlink
suggestion was one way to achieve just that.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 12:04 typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-05 12:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-05 22:54 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 0:06 ` Nick Roberts
2007-08-06 6:41 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-06 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-06 20:50 ` Michael Olson
2007-08-07 11:02 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-07 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 11:31 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-07 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-07 17:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-07 22:01 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-07 22:17 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-08-07 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-08 0:06 ` Jason Rumney
2007-08-08 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-08-09 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 3:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 5:50 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-08-08 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-08 20:14 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-08 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-08 20:27 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-08 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-12 20:33 ` Christian Schlauer
2007-08-12 22:01 ` Stephen Berman
2007-08-13 5:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-05 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-08 7:54 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-09 0:07 ` Richard Stallman
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