From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:36:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190486215 24162 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2007 18:36:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:36:55 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 22 20:36:48 2007 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 1IZ9qO-0007a8-Lo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:36:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ9qM-0007hX-Ao for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ9q7-0007fy-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ9q5-0007eI-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZ9q5-0007e7-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZ9q5-0001NJ-7J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l8MIaMR8013261 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:36:22 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l8MIG8ak015227 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:36:21 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-168.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3237810691190486171; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:36:11 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:47745 Archived-At: > > And, yes, trying to provide a useful index (in whatever form) > > usually requires some human effort and judgment - automatic > > indexing is somewhat limited in practice. > > Well, Google (and other search engines) demonstrate that an automatic > indexing can be very useful, too. Yes, full-text search is powerful and useful. A book index is something else. http://www.asindexing.org/site/indfaq.shtml