From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Windows FAQ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:02:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83hbhes23v.fsf@gnu.org> <83r5g2odjr.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286460399 5957 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2010 14:06:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:06:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 07 16:06:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3r71-0000zG-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:06:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3r71-0001M9-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:06:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55613 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P3r6l-00012M-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:06:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3r3h-0000JC-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P3r3h-0000J8-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P3r3g-0003Bo-0h; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:02:56 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Uday S Reddy on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:33:00 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:131426 Archived-At: > From: Uday S Reddy > Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:33:00 +0100 > > Your original proposal was to "simply remove" the Windows Emacs FAQ from the web site. That wasn't what I suggested. > If you want to amend that to say, transfer all the information to Emacs FAQ and *then* remove it from the web site, I would obviously have no objection. _This_ is what I suggested. > But, who is going to do it? Some volunteer, as usual. > Another factor that concerns me is that the Windows Emacs FAQ is not just an Emacs FAQ. It also answers questions about how to integrate Emacs with other components of the "GNU operating system" on Windows or even the "Windows operating system". For instance, questions like how do I unpack the distribution, how do I get it to work with Internet Explorer, and so on. Do you want to put all such information on the general Emacs FAQ? Sure, why not? The Emacs FAQ already contains similar info. > A third factor is that the Windows Emacs FAQ was produced by a community of users who knew exactly what the issues were. It is very hard, if not impossible, for developer teams produce such FAQs because they think in an entirely different plane. ??? Aren't the "developer team" also users of Emacs on Windows who need to overcome these difficulties (and have done so)? > I have been in a lot of situations where sys-admins got rid of documentation produced by user teams because they were supposedly "obsolete", but they ended up replacing them with other documentation which was way inferior. Only someone who doesn't know my views well can suggest that this is my drift. You will find a lot of my messages where I _object_ to removing support for seemingly-"obsolete" features, platforms, etc. Heck, I'm the one who insists on maintaining the DOS port of Emacs, remember?