From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: generate 2) other pages for Info
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:27:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ps08aowd.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1wcpyyul.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:18:42 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> | searched | found | manual |
>> |-----------------------+----------------------+---------------------------|
>> | Add a ChangeLog entry | add-change-log-entry | (info "(emacs)Change Log) |
>>
>> (This is actually what I'm trying to use inside my org-mode file.)
>
> After 10 years of using Emacs, this index will become so huge that it
> will be unusable, I'm pretty sure.
The user could keep such a history till he feels himself confident
enough to get rid of it.
>> The main job of the personal help manager would be to be able to find
>> these synonyms. I guess different people would use different synonyms
>> sets (not mentionning language-dependant issues).
>
> We could collect those synonyms for them (we actually do that today,
> in the index entries we place in the manual, please take a look).
I have, and this is great.
The good thing about a user-based help history is that it lets you store
erroneous search paths. There is no place for search errors inside the
standard documentation, even by using fuzzy matching of synonyms.
I found out that, not being able to find the correct answer is often a
matter of putting the query in the wrong words, and chances are very
little that these wrong words are synonyms of the a relevant query.
--
Bastien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-24 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-23 9:47 generate 1) virtual index and 2) other pages for Info; 3) S-mouse-2: follow link in new window Drew Adams
2007-09-23 11:09 ` Bastien
2007-09-23 12:03 ` generate 2) other pages for Info Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 12:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-23 14:17 ` Bastien
2007-09-23 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-24 0:27 ` Bastien [this message]
2007-09-23 21:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-23 11:41 ` generate 1) virtual index Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-23 20:42 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-24 7:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-23 11:45 ` generate 2) other pages for Info Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 12:00 ` generate 3) S-mouse-2: follow link in new window Juri Linkov
2007-09-23 16:44 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-23 19:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-09-23 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 0:20 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-24 1:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 2:01 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-27 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 21:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-27 21:41 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-28 19:04 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-28 19:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-28 22:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-30 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-30 8:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-30 23:37 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-30 23:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-01 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 23:39 ` info.el patch to open node in new window [was: generate 3) S-mouse-2: follow link in new window] Drew Adams
2007-09-26 8:56 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-26 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-29 22:44 ` info.el patch to open node in new window Juri Linkov
2007-09-30 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-29 22:41 ` generate 3) S-mouse-2: follow link " Juri Linkov
2007-09-30 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-29 22:43 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-30 2:18 ` Drew Adams
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