From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Manual topics to remove? Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:46:30 +1300 Message-ID: <17429.55846.409917.482700@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <87d5grwgtc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17428.40887.187946.405406@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87veuji44y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17429.16815.473389.71244@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200603131853.k2DIrH427426@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142283016 22790 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2006 20:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 13 21:50:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FItyO-0006s6-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:49:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FItyO-0002VF-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FItxV-0002F7-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FItxT-0002Ct-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FItxS-0002CX-Rw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FIu1L-00011M-AM; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-114-203.snap.net.nz [202.124.114.203]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16977463B4; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:47:48 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id E94B488E8; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:46:30 +1300 (NZDT) Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-Reply-To: <200603131853.k2DIrH427426@raven.dms.auburn.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.78 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51575 Archived-At: > But it appears that emacs-xtras is not being distributed with Emacs > which will reduce its reach considerably. > > It is called emacs-xtra, not emacs-xtras and it is in the man > directory of the Emacs distribution. If you use CVS Emacs, it should > be in the menu you get from `C-h i d'. Otherwise, something is wrong. I don't have any trouble finding it, but AFAIK not all the files in CVS will be used to make a distribution. When Richard said "on line", I took it to mean "on the Internet", but as Romain has said thats probably not the case. If the goal really is to the make paper version of the manual smaller, it would be helpful to know by how much. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob