From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem repeat entry for a number Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:54:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcmffp6t.fsf@gnuvola.org> References: <87pqcp0yec.fsf@mithlond.arda> <874ntzh5zu.fsf@gnuvola.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331196949 12210 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2012 08:55:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: source liu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 09:55:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1S5Z8N-0000Bi-TJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:55:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Z8N-0007SF-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:55:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Z8I-0007Rl-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:55:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Z8G-0008WV-LS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:55:33 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp208.alice.it ([82.57.200.104]:42856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Z8G-0008WH-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:55:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ambire (95.236.70.183) by smtp208.alice.it (8.6.023.02) id 4F056E8507337764; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:55:29 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S5Z74-0001Nb-I2; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:54:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: (source liu's message of "Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:17:39 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.104 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83979 Archived-At: () source liu () Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:17:39 +0800 > I see it as an opportunity to improve the manual. > What terms did you use to search for this info? here term you mean something like rxvt xterm? I'm sorry I'm not quite understand. Sorry, i'll rephrase ... as for manuals, i have a problem in looking it up for a quite a long time. A lot of information I know it should be in C - h, but when i come across to a issue, i just can't find which is related to the specific issue. :( ... here: The Emacs hackers would like to improve the manual so that the answer to questions such as "how to insert 999999999 using a prefix argument" can be more easily found, perhaps by adding terms to the manual's index, or by adding/clarifying specific pieces of text. To figure out what to do, it's best to know what happened, previously. That's why i asked that question, with "term" being another way to say "index topic". I presumed (maybe mistakenly?) that you used the index. So, more generally: "What was your strategy to search for the answer to this question?"