From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Maintenance of *info* documentation of Emacs/Elisp Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:38:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="26418"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list , Greg Hill To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 04:39:28 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j64ab-0006jU-Kp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:39:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59210 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j64aa-0006Qi-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:39:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57931) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j64aG-0006Qa-A2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j64aF-0003go-8J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ot1-x334.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::334]:43638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j64aF-0003gc-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ot1-x334.google.com with SMTP id p8so7434941oth.10 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:39:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bcX3K6YpAhndx9iyqSUNBes3oFdys3fc8qweYOIuZ6E=; b=o+cRAKKCScAYUh694A9e1IcLwVUp49lNqsDP0pOx6fTcBXX3zLiD+op6OEXyAyOoKp oI4AWEx8DiwBKj10xVmsoaNv4XZXXox+z5/OgW3xWSbWotuGQNv7DJ33PldFUnVYRBkF 50wTpqFsjKIwDzSriStz/nBPX8hzHtVDEuQ2UxvGg2K20OkesdeY/ckvLENxvDyx8iuZ A/EUxaHaKv5N2hrTgw2sym6MTFSCUY5x0hG3P73Z4KyX/WESsB9XG9oDtYsakSkc+XAW wJGMbVzTciOnI0xQ7JgG4IF9AZRZu84AUfccz8g1Uz92O+3Sb4qU8IVT4CS3Wxp1uwgo KzQw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bcX3K6YpAhndx9iyqSUNBes3oFdys3fc8qweYOIuZ6E=; b=QvyUViz/iZrcHqyVhddjQDzOJU28tsDLZzK/HErJYs6kiyAw9y6aq/AHIgdQ6lcc7C OKwuUrxrYJGsfSMoZfzcUq9nOdVl7PG7vQzlUpVMYGYkqMO4aZesz2fvZO1hXXFpbUb3 v+1aHc6v0Il6lgwuEd5g47enPKxgRdYUt8wOhhYAKFAzUYkrDUyoEOLpD7rdziALPkNB 45O7hEVv8xqmvGAMLp1DiIGZdTAMloeVzaqKJfXEi6XPyhtwVND6vSlEhMBXlKF2M8gY ZySjuwiT7Je98wP0j8Om3oWXEx1A7JNHA0H+i3TJKE+EBJlFGhaUinq5bnxtfJkv3Uc0 GMJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAV68YDTJylSSpmO3TJTXoUHPiVKlxwrXH5rsM55Vwe619aRHeD9 afgYuDokbc0D29rxxxR+ixNV4KeBRt05nxbHX+Q= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwYBjdkpLxMPPIlGMuNJiklKh8cg6bNoUVPmrfngWXEd5dbKMuGkFRvke6yit8rmD0WcgsG4YThqtr1VadNu5I= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6830:1447:: with SMTP id w7mr3987806otp.368.1582515541937; Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:39:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::334 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122465 Archived-At: On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 at 20:00, Drew Adams wrote: > > > Thank you, Drew, but I tried reporting my problems with documentation l= ike that as a "bug" first, got a reply from Steve Berman (actually we excha= nged several emails, and he helped me out a lot with answers to a number of= other non- "bug" questions I had while we were at it), and my understandin= g of what he told me about my suggestions re: improving the documentation w= as that he couldn't really help me with that, so I should probably take it = to help-gnu-emacs. > > Perhaps you misunderstood. Or perhaps Steve meant that _he_ couldn't hel= p with that. But that doesn't mean that someone else can't. > > Is the bug you filed closed? If not then you can hope that someone will = see it, agree about the problem, and have the time and will to fix it. It seems to be #39624 which is currently closed, but most of the discussion happened off-list. I'm sure concrete suggestions for improving the docs would be welcome there though. https://debbugs.gnu.org/39624