From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 00:44:35 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0605201544u3e34e12fx3eab4307e653671c@mail.gmail.com> References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> <85bqts9wjx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148165101 29632 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2006 22:45:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 22:45:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 00:44:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhaBo-0005TX-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 00:44:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhaBn-0007uf-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhaBa-0007sl-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:44:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FhaBZ-0007rL-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhaBZ-0007rF-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.237] (helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhaFC-0002NG-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 May 2006 18:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i3so825565wra for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 15:44:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JVkbSl50f1pssIjgnAKfbKEenhhNG/hWRsoQcmT8UD+297lh8YVOVv231bUssa3mkDBc24y8N6l4FGIvcTUxAE8DUIMqifwC5S2P4xPdVlXCQ1/HLEJHb1MFNxz27Ll5nPKUZ5OQsinhPtxX98pplLKLE90CCI2ydkdZArWIzDY= Original-Received: by 10.54.129.12 with SMTP id b12mr2465834wrd; Sat, 20 May 2006 15:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.108.5 with HTTP; Sat, 20 May 2006 15:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "David Kastrup" In-Reply-To: <85bqts9wjx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline 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:54899 Archived-At: David wrote: > >> Not a good idea since the navigation in HTML is much worse than in > >> info-mode. > >> > > Maybe not for a novice? > > We don't want to lead users into dead ends, even if it is easy to do. I can understand if there is a problem linking to the HTML-version of the documentation (relying on a link to an external resource could be a problem), but I don't see why the HTML-version should be that bad. Exactly why is the "navigation much worse" and what is the "dead end" here? People are used to find their way around HTML-pages these days and modern browsers have good search capabilities. I think that we might scare new users by just providing the internal Info system. Personally I use both, depending on my mood mostly... :)