From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Greg Hill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Maintenance of *info* documentation of Emacs/Elisp Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:48:04 -0800 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="40099"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Drew Adams , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 00:49:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j60zg-000AHL-3O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:49:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57942 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j60zf-0008Ui-50 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39952) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j60zL-0008UK-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j60zK-0006id-Jv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wr1-x42f.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::42f]:44582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j60zK-0006i6-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wr1-x42f.google.com with SMTP id m16so8248964wrx.11 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:48:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=MeZS3jOF7oWcbAucjA9fP2hjDrOCMkYk1lvl9G0tezo=; b=dab1z2G/8hhqRpzQcgmCgXVCrnz+ZbqWsm23yxN2tBcAmA2AEd9d7A+t4g+YdZaa3E Bm/pkz6BpHvzyqB5TpTfEkenmwowq6KtmC2GrAmRT6T0mTk/qAGAA1bsAugrDNFMPnkz ekl78hMzpk+mwD9qw+jepg31o/xnhiyUPkpCbjbilyumqSWqhqI4HUd/tvIQ46V+k5Cf PlGYSc/UB/PXaQATeboJD02hKX770vFIEJ6lFT65i1QFuEnEBhNE14PgOaROiAGW+ehs GG5qbLMbsceQKOHrQ5OxKFvvE7LjAFD9QIk7iQpFAuaTe9Brn/2X31yiA5KAYBVMI0Fh IN6Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=MeZS3jOF7oWcbAucjA9fP2hjDrOCMkYk1lvl9G0tezo=; b=DeAwmVIcix01QQCa9ah5SrJQXIu0lb2MM5rn3cgxzhGtLA/W5pfKdZDJoJQkStw1cr arxrISPa1tXqODBpVIj36YvKrn9Z863+oJh4gvt+Z2gSXA7w6Q+mJTiLpc4fzxYvs5jp 3pXt5FKaZo+HRCJ/AtdP9KQRDc5EJRT5WaoUGyUJryN50YVE6i4Elqfyu1psrtVQc4RS 16tf5yd9paTau5DDnXR4pyvA9RO6K/HzvXrBdoJgUi83JmClW4Vs64/T8VMGycqfVwV7 2tk6ttdouedExqxWicN7ELOWwglapyPfgEmIv66rUH9vWEEHR7mn38BIgmUx3dvbAmEO S7DA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUa0gyPW7WXJDzNCvKufs8QBRCAm4LbTvPnnF9nGFBpyO7okbUD XMQSOccXjgbkeB3bpH+u/f68dlq2gXcGoMh5B5Y= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxUtrqTpCEixft5jBiTbFP+S8OO0inL/+SklxhZ+znx1uERfzjqBp6gvqZ/Ey645SflfVxNOYAa+BVlE+MAFMY= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:4d06:: with SMTP id z6mr63381608wrt.241.1582501721044; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 15:48:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::42f X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122462 Archived-At: Thank you, Drew, but I tried reporting my problems with documentation like that as a "bug" first, got a reply from Steve Berman (actually we exchanged several emails, and he helped me out a lot with answers to a number of other non- "bug" questions I had while we were at it), and my understanding of what he told me about my suggestions re: improving the documentation was that he couldn't really help me with that, so I should probably take it to help-gnu-emacs. On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 2:02 PM Drew Adams wrote: > > is there someone who is in charge of keeping the *info* > > documentation up to date, to whom I could make occasional suggestions > about > > how it could be improved with just a little tweak, like by adding one > > sentence here or there? > > It's great that you have specific suggestions for > improving Emacs doc. > > For any Emacs Info manual, use `M-x report-emacs-bug' > to report a problem or to suggest an improvement. > That will guide you through preparing and sending a > reporting email to Emacs developers, who will take a look. > > >