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: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:05:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4pp39du.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <871tnsg0w7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k31ki3tc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <21657.38692.813089.642641@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0j4tqo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y4puad75.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419923182 28102 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2014 07:06:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 07:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , "Richard M. Stallman" , Nic Ferrier , Emacs-Devel devel To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 30 08:06:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5qsf-00055j-Pc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:06:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5qse-0002zR-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:06:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5qsR-0002zJ-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:06:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5qsQ-0007dW-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5qsQ-0007dS-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:05:58 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38904 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5qsG-0003Il-Jw; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:05:48 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6BE6CE06D5; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:05:33 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:57:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180880 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: >> >> I've decided to reject the idea of depending on a net connection >> for searching our documentation. Please take this as decided. > > I do accept that. > > But that does not mean such an alternative can not be valuable too. > New users will probably mostly use that approach to begin with. This feels like discussing the nourishment value of steak in a vegetarian diet, saying that new vegetarians will most probably start on steak. I have a hard time reading any sense into "I do accept that" in this context. -- David Kastrup