From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c) Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:14:18 +0200 Message-ID: <85hcn9rdgl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87sl6vhuml.fsf@debby.local.net> <87ejieh8w3.fsf@debby.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186604076 19141 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2007 20:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dieter Wilhelm , drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 22:14:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IIrvL-0005z5-7a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:14:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIrvK-0007Xu-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIrvG-0007V2-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IIrvF-0007U4-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IIrvF-0007Tv-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IIrvB-0001eW-LD; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0499A17FA27; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:14:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E869428EC4D; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:14:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-025-080.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.25.80]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDA436E871; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:14:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 844431C3C79D; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:14:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 08 Aug 2007 21\:43\:02 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:76203 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> From: Dieter Wilhelm >> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:50:52 +0200 >> >> > There's already a Glossary node in the manual, has been there since >> > time immemoriam. Is that what you want? >> >> Not quite, since it is of little use when one does not expect the term >> in it. > > You should expect any Emacs related terminology to be in the > Glossary node. I think you will find that it lives up to this > expectation very well, even for terms such as "iff" that are not > Emacs-specific. It does not merely live up to this expectation, but surpasses it by far. Which is actually the problem. What can we do to make people _expect_ the explanation to be in the glossary? The hyperlink suggestion was one way to achieve just that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum