From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Overlong nodes in the Emacs Lisp Manual Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:42:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200508091911.j79JBjD01662@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87oe852x47.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123793896 25021 80.91.229.2 (11 Aug 2005 20:58:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 11 22:58:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3K6T-0008AV-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:56:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3K9e-00057p-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3K7x-0004sM-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3K7d-0004h2-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3K7c-0004d1-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E3K9E-0001Zz-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1E3JsZ-00022M-5U; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:42:19 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87oe852x47.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:27:12 +0300) 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:41925 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41925 Thanks for finding the long nodes. The longest nodes are not ordinary documentation; it is ok for them to be as long as it takes: 1347 (info "(emacs)Command Index") 1334 (info "(emacs)Glossary") 1185 (info "(emacs)Acknowledgments") 992 (info "(elisp)Top") 856 (info "(emacs)Key Index") 802 (info "(emacs)Top") 645 (info "(emacs)Variable Index") 544 (info "(emacs)Manifesto") 375 (info "(emacs)GNU Free Documentation License") 375 (info "(elisp)GNU Free Documentation License") 362 (info "(elisp)GPL") 361 (info "(emacs)Copying") 358 (info "(elisp)Buffer Internals") Since that is about internals, its readability is less important than usual, so I won't bother with it. I will look at splitting these now: 361 (info "(emacs)Regexps") 348 (info "(elisp)Coding Conventions") 337 (info "(emacs)Checklist") 291 (info "(elisp)Low-Level Network") 258 (info "(elisp)Writing Emacs Primitives") 252 (info "(elisp)Time Conversion") I decided it is ok for Checklist to be long, and Writing Emacs Primitives. They are not ordinary topics. I split the rest of those. I may split a few more.