From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 19:32:13 +0700 Message-ID: References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7acc7d4f-23cc-4b6a-b062-ef92805e465b@default> <878tl3rz38.fsf@x230.lts> <877f0ln3dx.fsf@x230.lts> <83poed7i4t.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9tx7b7d.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv9h73o1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497011566 3731 195.159.176.226 (9 Jun 2017 12:32:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 12:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Etienne_Prud=E2=80=99homme?= , Stephen Leake , "rms@gnu.org" , Drew Adams , Emacs developers To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 09 14:32:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dJJ5k-0000fg-8S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:32:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJJ5p-0000Ev-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJJ5j-0000Ee-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJJ5i-0008Q6-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:32:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wr0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::22d]:36602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJJ5g-0008PD-2l; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wr0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id v111so31489171wrc.3; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:32:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9vst6WdsASOZA+Hdn4oXQmBAqW6aFndCx7njo4BuNKU=; b=J4Jf7MTo7gGtuXCv+WvTCRwLnmAAFG3nhWEPjCGFNmCcsH8ZEZcr4hAOF3v/RUiS7K hsgtoRUeYqQMUfMRl0NxLQhMpD/8MEscjyTux5Wq76h1pdCz0uDEHTdD3nI/pddKch0h 5oXcQ40GKPC2JCa31lXuyadkqk6uVsWlyLHsqByp/706/qvD30SbD445UQRgZ1COhQcJ bkMt+Ke8WVyaNvjcCf81HKKSP//jVlrSOWwbtnRj8QVSGNoHQpjkvoh3cOJBKlkOTJgc GoY6O9VW3H7juuMTxBR5fF4yMngKV/x+67k/mzcstOBtGD/UsNgTa0xzC7RHLiiLqgxh EKTw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9vst6WdsASOZA+Hdn4oXQmBAqW6aFndCx7njo4BuNKU=; b=eU4JxeTaimmZSqRPPJvfoi2EQEfWDu+dCGlol+Q7lGm9VHBTZuvjv1sLChN15Hc785 ie2gHFNi8vYwsbvL48dapQDYd2ngIBSPMP8l0jR7yQO4HRMHcUM8qVRFbKizBwfhiLxS QUdSKGU/vxhy6g4ejr/3nBhsRWJke7rw0GFxB5AuPOSo0+WOc+72Fn2VJjO2LbQHPRDi 5X6j7TCDr3Yhgt2CdPRU9Oe8T03JgZp6Y9EqqKTCS2GYvizZjOkEtTsqs8yXp/9XFSZf QPsm10+TUkRhLgyCemirO8Yfp+1vGu7r3/V4MIwdaIREB3if16dYsjGC3cuHhtf90zEm 1OsA== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcCwxmZsr1UNu+ZXj7k/ckO6fc6BFvdDBTswWxV1dAAXHG1g3tiU si90HLHZDLmnONq1jt46A2iJFJM3vg== X-Received: by 10.223.128.200 with SMTP id 66mr5813455wrl.99.1497011554590; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.164.93 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jun 2017 05:32:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83mv9h73o1.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: PTcp-dOyqWv_GlcNO0cX8wK-89Y X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c0c::22d X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215542 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > And btw, I very much doubt that the (apparent) vision of having all, > or even most of the documentation available in a single format is > practically attainable anyway. Unless that format is HTML or some > variant of it, because most projects provide their documentation in > that format, and Web browsers are ubiquitous. Dash/Zeal=E2=80=99s format *is* HTML, for the most part. > Why should we believe that the Dash/Zeal docset format will win the world= ? Perhaps it won=E2=80=99t. Perhaps it will evolve into something better. Or = it will force something else to evolve into something better.