From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 09:33:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6v2ndfx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <54331aa0-6a9a-4809-9f2d-88deee31558b@default> <83pn3zp8bu.fsf@gnu.org> <20201127160216.GA27998@tuxteam.de> <20201127175346.GB27998@tuxteam.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9996"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 28 08:34:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kiukU-0002VF-Ek for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:34:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35982 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiukT-0007YF-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiujT-0007XW-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiujT-0006o4-Eb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4707 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kiujP-00015P-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2020 02:33:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:26:13 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125717 Archived-At: > From: Arthur Miller > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:26:13 +0100 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > Documentation, however, is to be structured according to different levels > > of sophistication. But I understand it could be a lot of work to complete. > > Was not my intention to deride anyone. but to describe how it is. Documentation > > is always better than no documentation. And everyone does as one can. > > True. However, Emacs manuals are written by volunteers with limited > resources in their spair time (I hack Emacs as a hobby when I drink > coffee), so what is practical has also to be take into account. They > have to prioritize what level they put themselves on, especially Elisp > manual. That is true, but please point me to a Free Software project that has better documentation than Emacs, let alone documentation better structured according to different levels of sophistication.