From: Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Where has the manual on one html page gone?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:22:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGY83Ecx4NHCW4uU1H2+svjPz-Tctm4R78pTpZW+ABLZ9jEXtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dn9x84w.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>
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I'm not the OP, but I find the one-page manual useful when I'm not sure
what I'm looking for or where in the manual it might be, makes it easier to
search through the whole document iteratively.
--Diego
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:47 PM Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Christine Köhn <christine@chark.eu> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I always used the manual online as one html page but it does not seem to
> > be available since (?) the website revamp. I prefer the manual as one
> > page for many reasons. Is it still available online?
> >
>
> I've always used the one-page per section version on the web (although
> I tend to use Info much more often), primarily because I thought that
> downloading the whole manual to just look at a section or two or five
> would be inefficient - in fact, I've wondered why the single-page
> versions of various manuals (particularly the larger ones: emacs and
> elisp) are made available. So it is idle curiosity on my part, but
> what are the the reasons for your preference?
>
> --
> Nick
>
> "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
> invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 16:13 Where has the manual on one html page gone? Christine Köhn
2021-02-12 16:24 ` Diego Zamboni
2021-02-12 16:43 ` Christine Köhn
2021-02-15 22:45 ` Nick Dokos
2021-02-16 9:22 ` Diego Zamboni [this message]
2021-02-16 9:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-02-16 12:49 ` Devin Prater
2021-03-21 8:54 ` Christine Köhn
2021-03-21 14:48 ` Russell Adams
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