From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:37:35 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9003-Sat20Mar2004163734+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200403181837.i2IIbUV23148@f7.net> <1438-Fri19Mar2004165933+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079793902 390 80.91.224.253 (20 Mar 2004 14:45:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 20 15:44:42 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 1B4hiL-0003bo-00 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:44:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4hiL-0002Wy-00 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:44:41 +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 1B4hhQ-00044s-Dy for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hhJ-00044B-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:43:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hep-0003Xd-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:41:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4hee-0003VC-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:40:53 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.144.65]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.5-GR) with ESMTP id CPV18201; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:40:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 19 Mar 2004 12:31:07 -0500) 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:20642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20642 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: 19 Mar 2004 12:31:07 -0500 > > But using the index, you'd just say `info libc strcpy'. For that example, sure. But what about false hits in the concept index? Do we really want them to pop up? > And if you tell info to include libc's index by default, you can > just say `info strcpy' Are we going to single-case the libc manual? If not, what do we do with "info sit-for" or "info point"? > My model here is `man' where `man FOO' tries to guess in which section the > thing is placed and `man FOO BAR' looks for BAR in section FOO. Well, Info manuals are simply not organized like that, so the `man' model might not be applicable as easily as we'd like. Btw, I feel quite frustrated sometimes when "man printf" shows me the man page of printf(1). I think that's about the worst guess as one can get.