From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.mail.mh-e.devel Subject: Re: MH-E manual update Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:26:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <27306.1134088031@olgas.newt.com> <871wxfnisy.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <9353.1142107690@olgas.newt.com> <13900.1142119921@olgas.newt.com> <3490.1142267381@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142310405 2811 80.91.229.2 (14 Mar 2006 04:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 14 05:26:43 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 1FJ17B-0000NR-Vi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:26:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJ17B-0001M5-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJ171-0001Lz-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:26:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJ170-0001Ln-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:26:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJ170-0001Lk-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJ1B4-0000Uo-P8; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-146-107.inter.net.il [80.230.146.107]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DSZ40123 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:26:16 +0200 (IST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-reply-to: <3490.1142267381@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:29:41 -0800) 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:51589 gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:11970 Archived-At: > Comments: In-reply-to Richard Stallman > message dated "Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:55:24 -0500." > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:29:41 -0800 > From: Bill Wohler > Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Richard Stallman wrote: > > > It is not useful for a manual about Emacs to give lots of index entries > > a variant form that starts with "Emacs". That would bloat the index > > without being very useful. > > Agreed. But that is irrelevant here. MH-E is not a manual about Emacs. > It is a manual about MH-E. And it is not contained within the Emacs > manual. And we are only talking about fewer than 30 entries in an index > with nearly 2000 entries anyway, so it doesn't bloat the index and most > important, it is useful. It's being useful that I was concerned about when I wrote that. IMO, an MH-E users are extremely unlikely to look for information about Emacs in an MH-E manual. Therefore, they probably won't type "Emacs" at the `i's command prompt. So I expect those 30 entries to be rarely, if ever, used.