From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Low-stress useful project Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:28:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20060811085803.GC1233@muc.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155392939 17440 80.91.229.2 (12 Aug 2006 14:28:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 16:28:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBuTw-00014m-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:28:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBuTu-0000Dr-2S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:28:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GBuT8-0007uy-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GBuT7-0007uI-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GBuT7-0007tf-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GBuYU-0002dH-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GBuT5-0008Sx-Os; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:28:03 -0400 Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-reply-to: <20060811085803.GC1233@muc.de> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:58:03 +0100) 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:58321 Archived-At: With all due respect to everybody, and so on, but the Bash manual, the last time I looked at it[*], didn't seem to be one of the better manuals in the GNU system. It is short on examples, doesn't seem well organized, and I found it maddeningly difficult to find out about basic things (how do you write a `while' loop?) a few years back when I was learning bash. Would you like to work on improving it? It won't magically change by itself. The bash man page is much more coherent. It is ok to copy the text from there, too; it will require rewriting into Texinfo, though.