From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:53:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ve9x431f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1306.1190798609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:04:57 +0100
>> From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/CategoryDocumentation
>
> IMO, it should describe much more Info-mode commands. Without using
> the manual, the Emacs help system is quite crippled, especially for
> newbies. Doc strings not always target newbies, because they cannot
> be too wordy (due to considerations of memory footprint of the running
> Emacs).
Uh what? Doc strings are not placed in the memory of Emacs except for
those of uncompiled Lisp code.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-26 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 8:04 Emacs documentation sources Dave Pawson
2007-09-26 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 17:43 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.1329.1190828635.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 18:07 ` Richard G Riley
2007-09-26 18:55 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-27 8:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.1306.1190798609.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-26 19:53 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-09-26 21:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1354.1190841494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 6:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-27 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailma\x04n.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-27 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-28 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1419.1190967231.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-28 23:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1475.1191082767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-29 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-29 19:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.1375.1190879967.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-28 15:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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