From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: docstrings and elisp reference Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:31:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87wp87j0cr.fsf@zigzag> References: <0BB64F35-233A-471F-B99F-51F96C4E6CCB@gmail.com> <8360g99n07.fsf@gnu.org> <86lgp4q2xa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <13fd66c8-b22b-5b87-bd8c-34dbe0c7ec38@yandex.ru> <3d5a1ca0-645f-421f-8044-f344c586705d@default> <0d081c78-3e64-4cc3-afdd-471b49f21f24@yandex.ru> <83r2yw8iyu.fsf@gnu.org> <8241d6cf-0902-5f3b-9060-8bb445c02fed@yandex.ru> <89a80425-0c56-48aa-a124-b4ded2f41989@default> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497900791 18173 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2017 19:33:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:33:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 19 21:33:05 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2Q4-0004SF-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:33:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2QA-0000Ps-16 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55691) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2PC-0000Pm-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2P8-00071I-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.agora-net.com ([67.59.132.6]:54886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dN2P8-00070n-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:32:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dN1k7-0002Ew-Pv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dN1SQ-0005S0-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:31:26 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <89a80425-0c56-48aa-a124-b4ded2f41989@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:52:47 -0700 (PDT)") X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ttn@gnuvola.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.agora-net.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 67.59.132.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215790 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain () Drew Adams () Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:52:47 -0700 (PDT) What's wrong is to mistake one's own interests, which are typically limited (parochial), for the broader interests of Emacs as a whole. Just because you might rarely read the manuals, that's not a reason for Emacs to drop development of manuals or reduce their quality. It's wrong inasmuch as it's incomplete. That's natural, though. We are all born ignorant, and begin as solipsists. Emacs, OTOH, knows its place: the vehicle to unfix files and ferry its users' focus, their (point) of view, forward, backward, through various expressions and forms. It will never arrive, never be complete. Still, people help it, and it helps people -- that's fine, too. -- Thien-Thi Nguyen ----------------------------------------------- (defun responsep (query) (pcase (context query) (`(technical ,ml) (correctp ml)) ...)) 748E A0E8 1CB8 A748 9BFA --------------------------------------- 6CE4 6703 2224 4C80 7502 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllIGHcACgkQZwMiJEyAdQIAqQCg4eh7oK6nhH7VxcAOFE1QFjXZ pWgAnRIpfPDxrC5PJ0O4R80PGmzLRv6M =5pd9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--