From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:25:08 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5499A574.6070104@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87388bnzha.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87k31mdbhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx0qiv45.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9wqd3i5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fvc8kdsp.fsf@gnu.org> <6e11cd85-09a0-4b7a-baa2-0c810bdebbce@default> <871tnsg0w7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834msoqrsg.fsf@gnu.org> <5498C82D.5080605@cs.ucla.edu> <54991A97.1070605@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419355572 18072 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2014 17:26:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: adatgyujto@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 23 18:26:05 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3TDg-0007J0-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3TDf-0007w0-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54467) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3TDK-0007vg-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3TDC-0004gl-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:25:42 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y3TD4-0004cW-63; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F395A60004; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:25:25 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VBKeV0sXRL7E; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:25:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8991039E8013; Tue, 23 Dec 2014 09:25:16 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180584 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Would you like to fix this? I suppose I could help fix the diagnostic's obsolete quoting format, yes. More important, perhaps I could add infrastructure to cause diagnostics to be translated from English into the user's preferred language. (The infrastructure would provide a mechanism for other people to supply translations.) Other GNU applications have done these things for years, but Emacs mostly does not, and this is an obstacle to its use. As far as fixing that particular index entry, though, I'm afraid I'd rather not. There are so many things to fix in Emacs, and so little time! This sort of fix doesn't make the cut, as the manual's indexes are becoming less important.