From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: require basic stuff from specific packages Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 03:49:34 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86oa5zeklt.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <864m8671sy.fsf@student.uu.se> <86y45glxpy.fsf@student.uu.se> <86lh16i94u.fsf@student.uu.se> <86vb09hd10.fsf@student.uu.se> <86mvllh68i.fsf@student.uu.se> <867fcpgx43.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468547437 30539 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2016 01:50:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 01:50:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 15 03:50:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bNsGr-0008C3-N1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 03:50:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNsGr-000562-5s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:50:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder1.xsusenet.com!nntpspool.opticnetworks.net!nntpspool01.opticnetworks.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cf6VswM01I/TtS2lO35sqv4vQ8I= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218543 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110854 Archived-At: Howard Melman writes: >> I think there should be an explicit method >> for finding a thing which is denoted by >> a term that is known, only not the exact >> function (or variable) name, as in this >> case: to trim a string is the conventional >> designation, and `string-trim' is the >> function - so far all good. > > Some of the manuals have a "concept index" > for just this purpose. I agree indexes of all flavors are great. They are also easy and fun to do in LaTeX. Here is an example how to do that - search for "index" in the source (including the Makefile) - see? not a lot of code! http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/hs-linux/docs/report/final-30.pdf_data/153-final-30.pdf http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/hs-linux/docs/report/report.tex http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/hs-linux/docs/report/Makefile > Both the emacs and elisp manuals do. The Elisp manual in particular tho I strongly suspect to be in Texinfo... > I agree that it could be considered a bug > that string trimming isn't indexed (or as > I said, documented). A bug is normally thought of as malfunctional software, not incomplete information. For practical reasons `report-emacs-bug' (and associated functions) are also used to send various suggestions how to improve different things. So not all those things are "bugs" just because the function name is what it is. I.e.: (defalias 'send-suggestion-to-emacs-developers 'report-emacs-bug) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 58 Blogomatic articles -