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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 09:22:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B8504E.2010401@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m260y0152x.fsf@newartisans.com>



On 08.02.2016 00:19, John Wiegley wrote:
> A Spacemacs user just showed me:
>
>      http://spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION.html
>
> And compared it to:
>
>      https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html
>
> Maybe someone would like to bridge the visual gap? :)
>
> Spacemacs not only has a cleaner or more modern look, but it makes the
> documentation *feel* more accessible, which is key.
>

Hmm, IMHO spacemacs took a wrong path relying on some features which 
make things more complicated at the bottom.

WRT to documentation here: initial tutorial still focuses on keys where 
it should start with mnemonic command-names.

See first entry of M-v.

Cheers,

Andreas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-07 23:19 Improving the presentation of Emacs user documentation John Wiegley
2016-02-08  2:49 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-02-08  2:55   ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-02-08  8:22 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2016-02-08 13:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-08 13:12   ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-08 14:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 16:00     ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 16:22       ` Drew Adams
2016-02-08 16:43         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 16:44         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-08 16:55         ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-08 17:04           ` Drew Adams
2016-02-08 16:54       ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-09 12:13     ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-09 13:16       ` Nicolas Petton
2016-02-08 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 14:34   ` Andreas Schwab
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-10 11:18 Julius Pfrommer
2016-02-11 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2016-02-11 18:23   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-11 21:12     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-12 12:34     ` Richard Stallman

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