From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:43:48 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7105-Tue16Mar2004214348+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <87ekru8z8v.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87brmxjmp9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079466833 2056 80.91.224.253 (16 Mar 2004 19:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 16 20:53:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3Kcz-0004op-00 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:53:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3Kcz-0000gk-00 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:53:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3KX6-0003ew-T7 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3KWj-0003em-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:47:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3KWD-0003LN-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:47:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3KWD-0003LE-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.157.53]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id BMH21161; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:46:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Juri Linkov X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <87brmxjmp9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:05:54 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20538 > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:05:54 +0200 > > > We could add a feature that would look in those other manuals as > > well. In fact, it would be a good idea even now, as packages like > > Eshell and Gnus are parts of Emacs, so there's no need to force the > > user to know how we subdivide the Emacs docs. > > It would be very good to make a composite index from all Emacs > manuals. It could be implemented as a separate Info file with > references to nodes of other manuals. I don't think we need to physically bring all the indices together, we just need to have Emacs command look into all of these indices as appropriate. > Another good thing that could be implemented in Emacs is the --apropos > feature of the standalone Info browser. Full agreement. > Seems it's what people need very much, because they often place an index > of an Info file into dir buffer. The worst case I know is the libc.info > which places into dir buffer its own huge index with 1700 entries! I think this is a bug in glibc's manual.