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: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:52 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272998180 7234 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:36:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:36:20 +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 20:36:19 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 1O9Myh-0001VG-8f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:36:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Myg-0003fZ-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:36:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.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:u1yM1DYABsf6IdBl9aaYnGljn7Q= Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Mar 2010 00:00:52 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0ac3b91d.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=SeZSUB6HXg2RadXUBHgFh3A9EHlD; 3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF5MOK` Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177555 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:73045 Archived-At: "akaiser@visi.com" writes: >>> How I'd love to see complete, up to date, readily usable >>> documentation! >> Huh? Check out the manuals in the "Help" menu. > > Not complete, Huh? > not up to date, Huh??? > and not readily usable. Huh????? > Readily usable documentation would include complete reference > information for every function, variable, and macro bundled with emacs > at every release. Have you tried the i command in the Elisp manual? > It would provide some way better than string search to look for > related concepts. The concept index, maybe? > That kind of thing is real work. I'd be pretty happy with just > complete and up to date. It does a rather good job IMO. -- David Kastrup