From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:25:10 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200810302325.m9UNPA2V012599@zogzog.maillard.mobi> References: <251d6b72-b760-411b-8c35-83a7788e2491@u75g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <7343b66f-7262-466c-8975-9774dce22d88@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <7bddb878-9f4c-4140-827c-83cd29c96e5f@l77g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <372adbcc-d97b-453c-8ddc-3a7f1abb0b23@l62g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <87tzb26y7p.fsf@gmail.com> <87hc6z6nmp.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225409442 30409 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2008 23:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, paul.r.ml@gmail.com, kensanata@gmail.com To: "Lennart Borgman" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 00:31:44 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KvgzO-0007B1-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:31:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KvgyI-0006zd-AS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KvgwX-0006EF-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KvgwV-0006Ce-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:28:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48607 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KvgwU-0006CB-Mi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]:50644) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvgwU-0002rf-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:28:42 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 9FE07F3F54; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:27:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zogzog.maillard.mobi (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9UNPCet012600; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:25:12 +0100 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by zogzog.maillard.mobi (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id m9UNPA2V012599; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:25:10 +0100 In-reply-to: (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.12 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.362, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.04, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59277 Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Paul R wrote: > Hello Lennart, > > Lennart> I think some people call that second project "Emacs" ;-) > > Lennart> Why not work on improving the documentation inside the Emacs > Lennart> project along those lines? Or is there some problem doing > Lennart> that? Even if most of the documentation in Emacs are in Info > Lennart> format there are links to other documentation too, in html > Lennart> format. > > For users, Emacs documentation state is bound to an emacs release. > This documentation can't change between release, that is why this > project would have slighlty different goal. > But I agree, the flow of information could be : > EmacsWiki ----> Online emacs documentation portal ----> Emacs Info I wonder if that could be enhanced in some way. Maybe it would be possible to contribute to Emacs Info for the next Emacs release and then link to that documentation from EmacsWiki? How do you envision to do that practically ? Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org