From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:45:20 +0300 Message-ID: References: <837dq5ordu.fsf@gnu.org> <871rgd6jzk.fsf@web.de> <87r1oclvkp.fsf@web.de> <87blffzq7f.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39127"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 11:38:48 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 1kjgZz-000A4G-VU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:38:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33338 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjgZy-0004w1-Us for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjgXq-0002J8-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:36:34 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:46371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kjgXo-0006sl-Jl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:36:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.47]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C000E.000000005FC4CB2F.00005148; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:36:30 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -2 X-Spam_score: -0.3 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06=1.592, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:125770 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2020-11-30 03:08]: > The problem starts with actually trying to do something after deciding to > give elisp a try. Very often this requires a lot of emacs specific knowledge. > There need to be links with very clear steps. If you want X, here's how you > do it, geared towards the beginning developer (to elisp, not to development). > For the expert, there are all lots or resources to find information. The EmacsWiki.org https://www.emacswiki.org/ EmacsWiki could be good place for that. But one can see that people access various other communities such as Reddit and Stackexchange to get answers to their questions. What could help is the centralized dynamic knowledge repository that users could consult and browse to quickly find various pieces of information EmacsWiki is one such repository. But then we have mailing lists. Then we have Reddit an Stackexchange, and plethora of various other websites. Search engines sometimes help, sometimes not. To me search engines help less than mailing lists. Locating proper information is problem. It requires cataloging entries into their categories, tagging them, and so on.