From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Manual topics to remove? Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:26:07 -0500 Message-ID: <87d5grwgtc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142196649 6355 80.91.229.2 (12 Mar 2006 20:50:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 12 21:50:47 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 1FIX7s-0005os-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:25:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIX7r-0001K9-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIX7X-0001J7-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIX7S-0001Gw-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIX7S-0001Gt-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.19.6.82] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FIXAi-0005Ls-Mi; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:28:13 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C02A12042D; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:26:07 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:45:32 -0500") 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:51533 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > The Emacs Manual is getting bigger and bigger. Could you suggest > some topics to move into the emacs-xtras manual, which we distribute > only on line? I think emerge, picture, the more advanced parts of calendar/diary, and rmail can be moved into emacs-xtras. The chapter on Fortran mode can be moved out too -- there's no reason to have a chapter on Fortran in Emacs, when there isn't one on Perl, Python, or other (nowadays) more common languages.