From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:23:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8x6t7pbw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <711a73df0709260104l97cb41ft5fee3a882cef05c9@mail.gmail.com> (dave.pawson@gmail.com)
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:04:57 +0100
> From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/CategoryDocumentation
IMO, it should describe much more Info-mode commands. Without using
the manual, the Emacs help system is quite crippled, especially for
newbies. Doc strings not always target newbies, because they cannot
be too wordy (due to considerations of memory footprint of the running
Emacs).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 8:04 Emacs documentation sources Dave Pawson
2007-09-26 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-26 17:43 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.1329.1190828635.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 18:07 ` Richard G Riley
2007-09-26 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 8:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.1306.1190798609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 19:53 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-26 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1354.1190841494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 6:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailma\x04n.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-28 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1419.1190967231.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1475.1191082767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-29 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 19:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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