From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: order of manuals in Info...
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:52:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00d601c98008$cbdea6b0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufxj5sndp.fsf@gnu.org>
> > 1. What is the ordering scheme used in emacs -Q for the
> > Info manuals?
>
> They are ordered by (loose) topics, with the "main" manuals first.
No problem with that.
But what are the "main" manuals, besides the five I mentioned:
Info, Emacs, Emacs FAQ, Emacs Lisp Intro, and Elisp?
> > If it's supposed to reflect general usefulness or popularity
>
> It isn't.
Use the term "main-manualness" instead of "usefulness", if you prefer.
The question was about the order of those manuals that follow the five main
manuals I mentioned. What's the rationale? Is it "mainness"? If so, do you
really think that, e.g., Newsticker is more of a "main" manual than Ediff?
Do you think the current order is the best one?
Is there room for improvement?
> > Simplest would be alphabetical order - easy to find most entries.
>
> TAB-completion makes everything easy to find.
That's irrelevant to picking a helpful order.
That applies to any order at all.
And what about question #2: shortening the long lines?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 5:43 order of manuals in Info Drew Adams
2009-01-26 22:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-26 22:52 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-01-27 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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