From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: having heterogenous doc (was Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die) Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:26:23 +0000 Message-ID: <87388t6b5s.fsf_-_@ferrier.me.uk> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87mw72lyzs.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205190925.GA5067@thyrsus.com> <83h9x93leo.fsf@gnu.org> <20141205205320.GA7237@thyrsus.com> <87egsdst09.fsf@kima.orebokech.com> <20141205211826.GA7784@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417814829 1313 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 21:27:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:27:09 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 22:26:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Xx0Ox-0001P7-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0Ow-0002je-NC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0OW-0002UX-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0OP-0005f8-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:26:32 -0500 Original-Received: from static.17.66.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.66.17]:38312 helo=po1.ferrier.me.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx0OP-0005eI-1f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from nicferrier-dell-xps (140.35.155.90.in-addr.arpa [90.155.35.140]) by po1.ferrier.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3594FAC0498; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 22:46:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nicferrier-XPS13-9333 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nicferrier-dell-xps (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A2CB6000B; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 21:26:23 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <20141205211826.GA7784@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Fri, 5 Dec 2014 16:18:26 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 78.46.66.17 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179021 Archived-At: Wouldn't it be better to support more documentation formats? The Emacs manual and the Elisp manual are very large, perhaps they could be more usefully cut up. This could happen over time, with the people doing it making smaller manuals in texinfo or asciidoc or a few other formats? And if the documentation reader allowed a consolidated index then it would blur the lines between individual manuals. Wouldn't that be a good thing? I think I am opposed to Emacs being written in multiple programming languages but it seems like it would be ok to have the documentation in whatever format people were comfortable with. Nic