From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc/man vs etc Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189883641 2363 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2007 19:14:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 21:13:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IWd5Y-0003DZ-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWd5X-0002FG-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWd5L-00025R-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWd5J-00024P-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWd5J-00024G-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWd5J-0002cy-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWd4o-0001Hz-VO; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:11 -0400 X-Spook: nitrate NWO counter terrorism interception Ft. Bragg X-Ran: 7]bSKb8:2z\t*CL,zuom[e1/>o:~IAeX8?xC]I)2aAf?b&.+/LV\x%]G8=)/<5snh*,Tk' X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:16:19 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:78984 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Some of the man pages are still in etc/, AFAICS. Why weren't they > moved to doc/man, together with those which were moved? Because they don't get installed, except as part of the etc/ directory. If they were moved to doc/man, they would no longer be part of an installed Emacs. IMO, none of them are worth installing in the actual MANPATH (or if they are, it's not the job of Emacs to provide `man sex' hilarity).