From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:18:08 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87ekru8z8v.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079328459 11066 80.91.224.253 (15 Mar 2004 05:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 15 06:27:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2kdQ-0007Oc-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:27:32 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2kdQ-00014g-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 06:27:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kc7-00018P-4k for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:26:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kae-0000M2-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kZp-0007NV-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2kZd-0007IL-0b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-2-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.2]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AC4E4138; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:23:30 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20485 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20485 Eli Zaretskii writes: > Yes we can: we could make a separate manual that isn't printed as part > of the Emacs manual. Then users can print it on their own. > > We already do that for several major Emacs features. Making a separate manual is reasonable only for a big Emacs package like Ediff, Eshell, Gnus, or other 30 packages currently having a separate Info manual. However, placing smaller Emacs features into a separate manual is very inconvenient for users, because when they are trying for find a needed Emacs feature by searching the Emacs manual or by looking its index they might miss them. Currently, there is only one Info manual that don't correspond to a separate Emacs package: it is Autotype. It describes some small Emacs features, and even most of its references lead to the Emacs manual, so it really looks like a part of the Emacs manual. I think Autotype should be moved to the Emacs manual. BTW, is there a reason for not including references to SES and SMTP manuals into the `emacs/info/dir' file? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/