From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: propose adding Icicles to Emacs Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:35:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87bqfewha2.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182108946 27730 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2007 19:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juri Linkov" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 21:35:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I00XI-0004KQ-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:35:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I00XH-0005LY-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I00XC-0005I0-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:35:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I00XB-0005HC-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:35:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I00XA-0005H7-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:35:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I00X7-0002SY-G7; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l5HJZUbZ032035; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:35:30 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5HJZTP1006655; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:35:29 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-234.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2934761991182108924; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:35:24 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <87bqfewha2.fsf@jurta.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73159 Archived-At: > > The complete doc (the same as is on the wiki) is also in files > > icicles-doc1.el and icicles-doc2.el in plain-text form (not HTML). > > Why did you write the documentation for the Icicles package as comments in > two Emacs Lisp files that have no Lisp code instead of writing it > in Texinfo? Because it was easier for me, including easier to transfer to wiki pages. I'm not set up on Windows to write texinfo, and this is OK for now. The doc was originally in the main file that loads the others, but that became too big for a wiki upload, so I split it in two.