From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Split man directory Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:27:24 +0200 Message-ID: <877in51myr.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> References: <87fy1v36be.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188984469 2895 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2007 09:27:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@caeruleus.net, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 11:27:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISrAp-0006bH-PE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:27:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISrAn-0006e8-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISrAY-0006Uw-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISrAU-0006R9-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISrAU-0006Qs-I8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-relay.sonofon.dk ([212.88.64.25]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISrAT-0004sy-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 92793 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2007 09:27:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-lx.testafd.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 5 Sep 2007 09:27:24 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 04 Sep 2007 12\:45\:15 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:77843 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Indeed. But instead of `man', why not use the GNU-standard `doc'? > Thus, we will have > > doc/emacs > doc/lispref > doc/lispintro > doc/contrib (for other manuals) > I would suggest doc/userman rather than doc/emacs, as all of the manuals are about emacs one way or another. > This is fine with me (I agree with the person who said `misc' is better > than `contrib'). Agree. > I just wonder whether the added cleanness of creating a directory to > hold these four dirs outweights the disadvantage of moving them down > one level. If there were many of them, such as 8, then it would be > clearly yes. With just 4, it might be more annoyance than it is worth. I don't think so. I strongly support creating the doc directory. I also suggest creating doc/manpages and move all the *.1 files from etc into it (further cleaning up etc). -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk