From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-Xtra Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:20:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144898488 24955 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2006 03:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 13 05:21:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTsOc-0002Sr-3r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:21:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTsOb-0007nl-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTsNX-0007Nu-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTsNW-0007N8-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTsNW-0007Mg-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FTsSk-0002Hp-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FTsNU-0006YF-TW; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:20:16 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:41:18 +1200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52807 Archived-At: The stuff about VC that's in the Emacs manual is there because it is important enough that we should keep it in the printed manual. At least, I think it's that important; that's why I decided to keep it there. 1) VC has its own manual like PCL-CVS does. That would be no good because this would be missing from the printed manual. 2) All the programming/development topics are moved to a separate manual (Emacs IDE?) and only the obscure stuff is left in emacs-Xtra. If this means splitting the Emacs Manual into two manuals, both of which we would print, maybe that is a good idea--but how would we split it? (Version control is not used solely for editing programs, so including VC in a manual for "editing programs with Emacs" would not be right.)