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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:203021 Archived-At: On 04/17/2016 07:39 PM, Michael Albinus wrote: > So we are in agreement :-) Kind of. I disagree that "writing the manual" is going to solve any of the pressing problems, but it is a valid activity to partake in. > Personally, I believe a commentary section is a poor man's manual. Yes and no. It's certainly easier to navigate, at least while it's below a certain size (which is still true of vc.el's Commentary). > Once > the information is in the manual, the commentary section is not needed > anymore. But this is nothing we need to worry about just now; let's > discuss it once a proper manual entry about vc exist. ...so I have my reservations about replacing it. But yes, we can discuss it later.