From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "akaiser@visi.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:22:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: djc@resiak.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272997702 5172 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:28:22 +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 20:28:20 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 1O9Mqv-0005Y5-3N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:28:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Mqu-0004lE-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:28:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.visi!news.posted.visi.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:22:38 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Original-Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.221.201.1 Original-X-Trace: sv3-jJq8dhz5P06ESfTF4l15VuhIQfObXWg0jWZrhKVSLYjZy79JbbjDJk93G/tS44etem9h9VNmYDUvC1z!KtvqScXCyArkxwbiZnWn8RhTq+ra4CD29ishnIRKbc3CiotdnfonKyIH4KrEtKrf2manSbdf99hv!B3Y2yB84rQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177546 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:73038 Archived-At: >> How I'd love to see complete, up to date, readily usable >> documentation! > Huh? Check out the manuals in the "Help" menu. Not complete, not up to date, and not readily usable. 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. That kind of thing is real work. I'd be pretty happy with just complete and up to date. djc