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From: Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid>
Subject: Re: Emacs minimised
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 04:31:41 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NqX6a.61730$b8v1.28739@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3lm04a0s0.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

>>>>>> "Jesper" == Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> 
>     Jesper> Keith O'Connell <kroc@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>     >> Yes its there, now I know to look. The problem is I did "man
>     >> emacs" and it wasn't there. I figured if it wasn't in the man
>     >> file it was worth asking.
> 
>     Jesper> '-iconic' is documented in the "Icons X" node in the Emacs
>     Jesper> manual.  For GNU programs it's usually always best to look
>     Jesper> in Info first:
> 
> That's true.  But this is also a problem.  Even though I've been using
> Info to  look up  many things, I  still have  the unix habit  of using
> 'man'  when want  to  find something  in  a hurry,  and assuming  that
> everything is  there.  Failing  to find something  in the man  page is
> already frustrating!  So, I will forget about Info at that point!  :(
> 
> Info is good, if  I want to study the program for  15 minutes or more.
> But for quick lookups, man  pages are still much better.  (Many people
> are simply not interested in learning yet another program.)

That's outrageous.  Everybody knows nearly 78% of all dentists surveyed prefer 
Info to man pages.



--
Le

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26  4:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-21 15:16 Emacs minimised Keith O'Connell
2003-02-21 15:58 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-21 17:02   ` Keith O'Connell
2003-02-21 20:39     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 21:26       ` Keith O'Connell
2003-02-21 21:57         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 22:01         ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-25 14:32           ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-02-25 17:23             ` Kester Clegg
2003-02-25 19:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-26  2:52             ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-26  4:31             ` Unknown [this message]
     [not found]             ` <mailman.2406.1046200218.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-26 17:19               ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-03-01 11:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-27 15:24             ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-04 16:42               ` Kester Clegg
2003-03-04 16:58                 ` Lucas

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