From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs cvs newbie problems Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:18:53 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210011818.g91IIrv20614@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200210011724.g91HOoi09136@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033496504 5425 127.0.0.1 (1 Oct 2002 18:21:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:21:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, rms@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, hattons@speakeasy.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17wReQ-0001PN-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:21:42 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17wSOh-0006yq-00 for ; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:09:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wRei-0006Ab-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:22:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wRbn-0005v2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:18:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wRbl-0005uq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wRbk-0005uY-00; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 14:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g91IIrv20614; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:18:53 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8301 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8301 > How about changing makeinfo to complain when the specified dircategory > is not among the few standard ones ? > > I think that would be too frustrating -- the problem is that there is > more than a few. I wouldn't want to prejudge a maintainer's decision on > what category to use. By `complain' I don't mean "raise an error". It can be a gentle reminder pointing to the documentation. > and change `GNU Emacs Lisp' > to `GNU Emacs' (or maybe `Emacs' which is what Emacs uses). > > Well, my thought was that the main `Emacs' entry could be in `GNU > packages', and then all the manuals for the elisp addons would be `GNU > Emacs Lisp'. Then the main emacs entry is not lost in the welter of > other emacs-related entries. But I'm certainly not going to insist, > whatever you think best. The packages happen to be written in Lisp but are not related to Lisp, they're related to Emacs, so I think `GNU Emacs' or `GNU Emacs packages' would be better. Stefan