From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MBR Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving? Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:32:50 -0400 Message-ID: <521FF642.2010303@arlsoft.com> References: <87r4ddo4yp.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377826398 23058 80.91.229.3 (30 Aug 2013 01:33:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 30 03:33:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VFDaS-0006NJ-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:33:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFDaS-0005TW-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFDaB-0005Kk-Np for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:33:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFDa5-000324-I1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from omaha.hostforweb.net ([64.202.117.171]:55752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VFDa5-00031v-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:32:57 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=arlsoft.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:CC:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID; bh=4n0QJVxE3O9o25pGRzc9FFqpti0WSlEmpLYlrR9go7o=; b=AG9y/t0t+lj6uv4NCWsBr04jl2al3eM+xqy2MubyzgP7zBK943XjgXJs1Yj1EZx2vHEYoAkUsyKY/QkcG6zBmfe22KljHe6U1WBOIguAQv2petfgQMgS0bSZwRUU3XVk82qq2tmH/DzzJ5ehBJ/nRQvEiVhZO2l9Enq+AOVlB+U=; Original-Received: from c-24-61-86-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.61.86.182]:2077 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by omaha.hostforweb.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1VFDZz-0003WZ-MO; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:32:55 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: <87r4ddo4yp.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - omaha.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - arlsoft.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: omaha.hostforweb.net: authenticated_id: mbr+arlsoft.com/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (barebone) [generic] X-Received-From: 64.202.117.171 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93167 Archived-At: C-h is the main entry point to Emacs' extensive documentation. When you type C-h, the minibuffer at the bottom says "C-h (Type ? for further options)". Typing ? produces an extensive list of help commands. Good places to start are: C-h t start the Emacs tutorial C-h i start the "info" documentation reader. From here you can choose to read documentation on Emacs and about 50 other programs. That's what is meant by self-documenting. Mark Rosenthal On 8/28/2013 5:55 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > I've heard that Emacs is self-documenting numerous times, and, if > this refers to the docstrings of Elisp functions, I have to say > "self-documenting" is stretching the truth.