From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:49:29 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <877hp04ft2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> <87wrx0mr40.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272999366 12362 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:56:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:56:04 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9NHm-0005MD-Dt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:56:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NHl-0006O2-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:56:01 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.weisnix.org!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xTuGhZwdnCs0nJnG/jsPvpgPAHo= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Mar 2010 15:49:29 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a94c4921.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=Tm29bZFkmPNA@P]\DMcF=Q^Z^V3H4Fo<]lROoRA8kF5MOK` List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73062 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:00:03 +0100 "akaiser@visi.com" wrote: > > ac> Look through this newsgroup for all the places a response has said > ac> "Have you tried function such-and-such", or "that behavior is > ac> controlled by variable X except that the default is variable Y". If > ac> the documentation were better, much of that would disappear. > ... > ac> a literate, conscientious user with decades of programming > ac> experience, decades of experience writing documentation, decades of > ac> using emacs, and decades of support for free software > > If you have so much experience you know rule #1 of writing manuals: > > They Won't Read It. > > followed by rule #2: > > They Still Won't Read It. > > and then rule #3: > > They'll Complain About It. You forgot rule #4: To Justify not Reading It. -- David Kastrup