From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tip of the day? Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:19:50 +0900 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0607111454l2fd20523q358b3a2743461fb6@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152670825 32384 80.91.229.2 (12 Jul 2006 02:20:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 04:20:22 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 1G0UKr-00029p-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0UKq-0002bH-Am for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0UKe-0002az-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0UKc-0002an-K1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0UKc-0002ak-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.82] (helo=mgate02.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0UM1-0004te-MC; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:21:34 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com (relay11 [10.29.19.46]) by mgate02.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6C0rxwd000387; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:19:58 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:19:58 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:19:58 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 5067E481; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:19:51 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "Mathias Dahl" System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0607111454l2fd20523q358b3a2743461fb6@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:54:24 +0200") Original-Lines: 15 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:56943 Archived-At: "Mathias Dahl" writes: > I like the idea. Now and then I stumble upon things I did not know > existed in Emacs, often while looking for something completely > different. Just opening up a random manual page could prove to be > quite useful. I was a bit skeptical of this idea: I thought maybe just the first few lines of an info node might not be interesting enough to hook people. But I've just gone and looked at a bunch of random nodes in the Emacs manual, and I think that, by Emacs, it may just work! -mile -- My spirit felt washed. With blood. [Eli Shin, on "The Passion of the Christ"]