From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:19:49 -0400 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497064877 27682 195.159.176.226 (10 Jun 2017 03:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 03:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Etienne =?utf-8?Q?Prud=E2=80=99homme?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 10 05:21:14 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 1dJWxd-00070m-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jun 2017 05:21:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJWxi-0000ld-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:21:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJWwk-0000kL-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJWwj-0004Ro-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJWwH-00040W-Ul; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dJWwH-0004HZ-78; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:19:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <877f0ln3dx.fsf@x230.lts> (message from Etienne =?utf-8?Q?Pru?= =?utf-8?Q?d=E2=80=99homme?= on Fri, 09 Jun 2017 01:20:26 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:215549 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > What is "semantic support"? > It is more or less tagging useful information about the content > generated. Particularly useful when doing indexation of either comments > or the documentation. Sorry, I still don't understand what the idea is. > The tool I described is an offline documentation viewer. The docset is > what is interesting. What we usually call docset is a tarball with the > documentation and an index tagging the documentation. I don't really understand this, and why isn't Emacs a good way to view Emacs doc strings interactively? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.