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: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:28:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83pn3zp8bu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pn419aha.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <20201126160013.GD28931@tuxteam.de> <20201126182734.GA5175@tuxteam.de> <54331aa0-6a9a-4809-9f2d-88deee31558b@default> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29555"; 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 Fri Nov 27 08:35:02 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 1kiYHU-0007WH-Sg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 08:35:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56018 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiYHT-0006XJ-RX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiYBK-0002xu-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kiYBK-0002gD-Dw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:28:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3319 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kiYBJ-0002K7-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 02:28:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Dimech on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:47:08 +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:125645 Archived-At: > From: Christopher Dimech > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 01:47:08 +0100 > Sensitivity: Normal > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > The manuals should be rewritten because they are incomprehensible. > Perhaps it was good in the eighties. It continues forever. Consider > "face customisation" for instance, which just means font. Nobody > fuckin reads a manual with 17 nodes. You don't know which one to use, > which commands are most useful, and so on. The problem gets compounded > because every esoteric command is there. > > You are just insisting on something bad and inefficient. Fair warning: if that is your attitude towards our documentation, please be aware that there will be some people here who'd refrain from helping you. We don't work for you, so if you refuse to help yourself by becoming more proficient with the extensive documentation features in Emacs, we cannot be expected to hold your hand forever.