From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:54:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <251d6b72-b760-411b-8c35-83a7788e2491@u75g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <7343b66f-7262-466c-8975-9774dce22d88@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <7bddb878-9f4c-4140-827c-83cd29c96e5f@l77g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <372adbcc-d97b-453c-8ddc-3a7f1abb0b23@l62g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <87tzb26y7p.fsf@gmail.com> <87hc6z6nmp.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225058102 27072 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2008 21:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Alex Schroeder To: "Paul R" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 26 22:56:03 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KuDab-0002iJ-VQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:56:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34667 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuDZW-0002gG-1n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:54:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuDZB-0002fg-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KuDZB-0002fU-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58760 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuDZB-0002fR-Ah for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:30175) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuDZA-0005X8-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1807744fgb.30 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:54:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Id4gTXqefZj6EtI2l4VsAQsPSh9QJYGmVlFBsbXiurc=; b=PTPfot6RrAMi2D1Jyp0Jt9ttE11C111qZbz3MvBhvHp01qcnvoKVeDLXEhtgAKMyvX cBCopd//c48nUBOE0bLdzi6bZn02aDCqKYgtLCAwj/jj8fLjkwUkP4V9brdV5QK8iY7G pk1zcyh2r6Mo8Mm5YTcuegDegMt4KylSTI2b8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=hfUbx/81FulAQvL+IzgxECaRSNzOogwELUktB3//Zhtt1PtqIt6ll2fokMLazObb+d Yq/8cXpyAY+5Ipk8sbWMn4t1ouu6MxcLS96xZp0EOWmU7hrHUU9sz5tcgKOkNBhJM2mH 5zIzn4Um0s0GJ0rHTNhTejdWF/biYCPl2w2Qw= Original-Received: by 10.86.95.20 with SMTP id s20mr2538680fgb.39.1225058071876; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.65.3 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:54:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87hc6z6nmp.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:59176 Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Paul R wrote: > Hello Lennart, > > Lennart> I think some people call that second project "Emacs" ;-) > > Lennart> Why not work on improving the documentation inside the Emacs > Lennart> project along those lines? Or is there some problem doing > Lennart> that? Even if most of the documentation in Emacs are in Info > Lennart> format there are links to other documentation too, in html > Lennart> format. > > For users, Emacs documentation state is bound to an emacs release. > This documentation can't change between release, that is why this > project would have slighlty different goal. > But I agree, the flow of information could be : > EmacsWiki ----> Online emacs documentation portal ----> Emacs Info I wonder if that could be enhanced in some way. Maybe it would be possible to contribute to Emacs Info for the next Emacs release and then link to that documentation from EmacsWiki?