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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should `describe-face' have a global binding? Should C-h i be achoice in C-h C-h?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:57:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <857j22lqrx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzmeyeq6g.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:52:23 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:22:32 -0700
>> 
>> BTW, I'm not sure "read online manuals" is appropriate, given the modern
>> meaning of "online" as connected to the Internet or an intranet (or some
>> network). Perhaps "read hypertext manuals"? Or just "read manuals" - no one
>> would expect to use `C-h i' to read hard-copy manuals ;-).
>
> How about "read manuals installed on your system", or "read installed
> manuals"?

Possible, but I copy Drew's opinion that people will hardly expect to
get hardcopy.

However, they might expect to get a PDF reader or similar (which would
be nearly as inconvenient), so one might want to qualify with "read
hypertext manuals", if at all.

However, this has the disadvantage of being techno-babble and not
inviting to the average user.  To bring across the hypertext notion,
another possibility would be

"browse manuals".  It still might make the user think that this will
start an HTML browser, but what actually happens will hopefully not be
too far off the expectations.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-23 21:14 Should `describe-face' have a global binding? Should C-h i be a choice in C-h C-h? Drew Adams
2006-07-24 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-24 16:22   ` Should `describe-face' have a global binding? Should C-h i be achoice " Drew Adams
2006-07-24 19:52     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-24 19:57       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-07-24 20:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-24 20:59           ` David Kastrup
2006-07-24 16:33   ` Should `describe-face' have a global binding? Should C-h i be a choice " Kevin Rodgers
2006-07-24 21:50     ` Richard Stallman

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