From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:59:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-b6e4ac00-fa00-4f00-a854-b9ad7f60de59-1606463942607@3c-app-mailcom-bs02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pn3zp8bu.fsf@gnu.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 8:28 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:47:08 +0100
> > Sensitivity: Normal
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > The manuals should be rewritten because they are incomprehensible.
> > Perhaps it was good in the eighties. It continues forever. Consider
> > "face customisation" for instance, which just means font. Nobody
> > fuckin reads a manual with 17 nodes. You don't know which one to use,
> > which commands are most useful, and so on. The problem gets compounded
> > because every esoteric command is there.
> >
> > You are just insisting on something bad and inefficient.
>
> Fair warning: if that is your attitude towards our documentation,
> please be aware that there will be some people here who'd refrain from
> helping you. We don't work for you, so if you refuse to help yourself
> by becoming more proficient with the extensive documentation features
> in Emacs, we cannot be expected to hold your hand forever.
It is well known that some at Gnu cannot take criticisms when others
try to read what others write. I am a writer by profession. So spare
me the "Don't work for you" defensive approach.
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2020-11-24 17:05 Auto Fill Comments Christopher Dimech
2020-11-24 19:42 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-24 19:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-24 20:02 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-24 20:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-25 0:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 4:40 ` Dante Catalfamo
2020-11-27 4:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 5:47 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-25 7:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-11-25 7:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 3:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 15:13 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 15:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 16:00 ` tomas
2020-11-26 17:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 17:35 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:27 ` tomas
2020-11-26 18:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 19:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 20:16 ` tomas
2020-11-26 20:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 20:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 21:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-26 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 0:47 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 1:57 ` arthur miller
2020-11-27 2:20 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 3:04 ` arthur miller
2020-11-27 3:46 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 6:27 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 6:34 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 7:02 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 7:15 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 7:29 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 7:00 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 7:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 8:26 ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-27 13:26 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27 2:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 2:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-27 3:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 5:47 ` Jean Louis
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2020-11-27 6:21 ` Jean Louis
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2020-11-27 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-27 8:51 ` Arthur Miller
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2020-11-29 1:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-12-01 18:47 ` Andreas Eder
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2020-11-30 21:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-30 22:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-30 22:26 ` tomas
2020-11-30 22:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-30 23:44 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 8:45 ` tomas
2020-11-30 22:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-30 23:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 8:42 ` tomas
2020-12-01 15:50 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 16:35 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-01 18:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-01 19:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2020-11-30 23:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-29 7:52 ` Yuri Khan
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2020-11-28 12:08 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-28 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-11-27 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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