From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeff Clough Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:52:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272997851 5886 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:30:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:30:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:30:49 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9MtG-0006qF-W1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:30:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9MtG-0007oB-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:30:42 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.motzarella.org; posting-host="VDM3607lx+ft0F522riMcQ"; logging-data="6718"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18OWyfan75+ebRZz32ikldQ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3MxgVgnwqh2QSp5ynMD/rS9V9BY= sha1:sm0grtf4Y5nGswgcqjEkGh8GBzo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177548 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:73040 Archived-At: "akaiser@visi.com" writes: > Readily usable documentation would include complete reference > information for every function, variable, and macro bundled with emacs > at every release. It would provide some way better than string search > to look for related concepts. And it would be generously illustrated. But isn't that what describe-function or describe-variable are for? For what it's worth, I *do* find the manual to be dense at times, or wish things were organized differently, but the online documentation is just awesome. Jeff