From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:25:41 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403201415.i2KEFNq19043@f7.net> <7494-Sat20Mar2004171547+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <20040320192709.GA31243@fencepost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079933870 19508 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 05:37:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:37:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 06:37:46 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 1B5I8A-0001yv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:37:46 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5I86-0002R0-00 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:37:42 +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 1B5I75-0004dx-3e for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5I0y-00010Y-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5I0o-0000vK-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:30:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5I0i-0000uj-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:30:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B5HwT-0007D4-13; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:25:41 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 21 Mar 2004 07:55:56 +0200) 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:20706 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20706 > Anyway, the point is that the mapping is often fuzzy Are you saying that it's easier to remember the mapping of man sections? That question is not relevant. Why justify one flaw because man has some other flaw? Man sections are an example to learn from, not a model to follow. I think that the suggestion I made in a recent batch is better than the man sections, because it eliminates the artificial distinction between sections 2 and 3.