From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1 Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:13:09 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301011944.h01Jim0U011400@stubby.bodenonline.com> <200301040255.UAA16436@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <5145.1041812267@remus.pretzelnet.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041997754 7602 80.91.224.249 (8 Jan 2003 03:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18W7DL-0001yN-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:49:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18W7ID-0007Kk-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:54:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VxxR-0003Kg-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Vaok-0008PV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VaoZ-000856-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:13:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VaoH-0007mc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18VaoH-0002N7-00; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:13:09 -0500 Original-To: epg@pretzelnet.org In-reply-to: <5145.1041812267@remus.pretzelnet.org> (message from Eric Gillespie on Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:17:47 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10553 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10553 The question is real. The emacs manual needs information about how to customize the gtk widgets, yes, but it is not the place to document the gtkrc syntax, any more than it is the place to document the syntax of X resources. For this, a cross-reference is valuable. We should handle this case like the X resources case: show precisely what to do for Emacs. A cross-reference to the GTK doc for those who would like more information would be useful to add. I wrote to the GTK developers asking them to add Info targets to their makefile. By and by, there should be an Info file we can reference.