From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:07:59 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wrx0mr40.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272999312 12130 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:55:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:55:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:55:10 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9NGt-0004nI-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:55:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NGs-00061Z-Ns for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:55:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net JUQ0ksD568VmRG7BmJ3m+OPvdH+DEAeQUOEHk6cdpY4vNksV4rYjkzbb1xL6PxqUGgF7QVgAuLXWsv7/1zBCVo3lNE5yob8GQIX8XFdoRmt9D8WPlfxkdAJ91NIjTIsn Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:07:59 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: O3v3Nva5SszzjiEwbzKvz6CfQ0qmcEwbKbyTGFLxQfk= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ae4okwg3qw6DNuq5mrAcpmzrz4g= sha1:Ke5v5SWC5nyU2r+6m+9nLn+XUG4= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: FfROl2ZaGwpXS1b/xW+goSsiYhsDmkzehGZYTqeSlvs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177573 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:73061 Archived-At: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:00:03 +0100 "akaiser@visi.com" wrote: ac> Look through this newsgroup for all the places a response has said ac> "Have you tried function such-and-such", or "that behavior is ac> controlled by variable X except that the default is variable Y". If ac> the documentation were better, much of that would disappear. ... ac> a literate, conscientious user with decades of programming ac> experience, decades of experience writing documentation, decades of ac> using emacs, and decades of support for free software If you have so much experience you know rule #1 of writing manuals: They Won't Read It. followed by rule #2: They Still Won't Read It. and then rule #3: They'll Complain About It. Ted