From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Maintenance of *info* documentation of Emacs/Elisp Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:58:56 +0100 Message-ID: <877e0c7qcv.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="55880"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:S6kYiKXkM05valAZLZqC1Ss2M4s= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 01:59:24 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j625k-000ES3-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:59:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58394 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j625j-0005g9-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:59:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j625R-0005fu-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j625Q-0006qo-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:48750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j625Q-0006pY-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:59:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j625O-000E1X-7W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:59:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122463 Archived-At: Greg Hill wrote: > Thank you, Drew, but I tried reporting my > problems with documentation like that as > a "bug" first, got a reply from Steve Berman > (actually we exchanged several emails, and he > helped me out a lot with answers to a number > of other non- "bug" questions I had while we > were at it), and my understanding of what he > told me about my suggestions re: improving > the documentation was that he couldn't really > help me with that, so I should probably take > it to help-gnu-emacs. The formally correct method to suggest a hands-on improvement to Emacs documentation is `report-emacs-bug', if you want to bring it up on a mailing list, while it is certainly not off topic here, probably it is better still to bring it up at gmane.emacs.devel/emacs-devel -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal