From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:21:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83mv9h73o1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <7acc7d4f-23cc-4b6a-b062-ef92805e465b@default> <878tl3rz38.fsf@x230.lts> <877f0ln3dx.fsf@x230.lts> <83poed7i4t.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9tx7b7d.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497010888 6981 195.159.176.226 (9 Jun 2017 12:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 12:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 09 14:21:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dJIup-0001b7-9r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:21:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJIuu-0005QW-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJIuo-0005QR-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJIuj-0004o2-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:21:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dJIuj-0004ny-P6; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2847 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dJIuc-0007gt-HG; Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:21:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <83o9tx7b7d.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:38:14 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215541 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 12:38:14 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: e.e.f.prudhomme@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, rms@gnu.org, > drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: Yuri Khan > > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:27:30 +0700 > > Cc: Etienne Prud’homme , > > Stephen Leake , "rms@gnu.org" , > > Drew Adams , Emacs developers > > > > The important thing you’re missing is availability of other, > > non-Texinfo documentation sets, in that same browser. > > But this discussion's context was GNU projects, all of which have > Texinfo manuals. And btw, I very much doubt that the (apparent) vision of having all, or even most of the documentation available in a single format is practically attainable anyway. Unless that format is HTML or some variant of it, because most projects provide their documentation in that format, and Web browsers are ubiquitous. Why should we believe that the Dash/Zeal docset format will win the world?