From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831ro2tqqx.fsf@gnu.org> <4a1fd3f4-df92-c756-9874-4d07b54148ac@yandex.ru> <83v9lesapw.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbms9m8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="119356"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:44:37 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5YS-000Uxb-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:44:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39640 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5YQ-0006xV-58 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5X7-0005FQ-L9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44722) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5X7-00061R-4X; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Wx-0001eh-3R; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:43:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sat, 2 May 2020 17:20:16 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248624 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. ]]] > With a few keystrokes I end up on > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Strings-and-Characters.html. > >From there I have to select a topics, read it partially, go back, read > another topic, Could you please give a concrete example of what you mean by this, and why you find it inconvenient? I can imagine several possible meanings for your words, referring to different conceptual levels. Do you know that if you just start typing SPC SPC SPC... in Info you will go through the whole contents of that chapter in linear order? all that while skipping paragraphs most of the time (but > that can be improved with my keep-lines trick). It would take mind-reading for documenation to exclude all the parts of a general topic that you're not interested in at the moment. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)