Re: Keybinding styles

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > If you wanted to do a research project, you could try developing a
  > > system for writing manuals which handled variation in key bindings.
  > > You might come up with an advance in technology.
  > >
  > > If you want to work on that research, I wish you luck, but that is
  > > outside the scope of the GNU Project.

  > Why is it outside the scope of the GNU Project?

We have an Emacs Manual that documents Emacs.
That's what we want.  Producing manuals for greatly modified
version of Emacs is not our goal.  If some people want to work on it,
they are welcome to, but I won't urge people to choose that project.

  > 1. Convert the Emacs manual from texi to org.

  > 2. Leverage `where-is' and the macro replacement facilities of org---(info
  > "(org) Macro Replacement").

  > 3. Export the org manual to texi.

Supporting this as part of Emacs is a non-goal, but
if this gives you results you like, you are welcome to do it.

Eli wrote:

  > That'd produce a manual that caters to a single, but different set of
  > key bindings, which was not the intent.  The intent is to produce a
  > manual that caters to any set, in the same manual.  That'd mean
  > changing the text dynamically when it is displayed by the Info reader,
  > whereas you propose a static change.

I think that is a much more challenging goal than the other one.  I
expect it will be difficult to reconcile this with formatting the
manual trough TeX.

Supporting this as part of Emacs is a non-goal, but if you present
a clean and unproblematical implementation, we would not reject it
a priori.

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