From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12973: @: overused in manual Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:37:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50AFCDA1.8020500@cs.ucla.edu> <831ufjtsrb.fsf@gnu.org> <50B06D14.2070104@cs.ucla.edu> <83zk27savf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353782314 4113 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 18:38:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 12973@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 24 19:38:45 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKcn-0007RW-1G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:38:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKcc-0005Yv-8k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:38:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKcY-0005Yf-Vr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKcX-00086J-Vi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:38:30 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKcX-00086F-SH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKe2-0002Jz-GT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12973 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12973-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12973.13537823438853 (code B ref 12973); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12973) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2012 18:39:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36924 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKd5-0002Ii-68 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:33929) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKd3-0002IE-K9 for 12973@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TcKbW-0000OT-Og; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:37:27 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:17:02 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67406 Archived-At: Consistent style and proper usage do not alone make a manual good, but the lack of them makes any manual worse. We should correct these style issues for each Emacs release. It would be good to invite some people who are good at this to do the work and install the fixes directly. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call