From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: AH HA! it's a MENU item! Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:23:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff65ha$p5j$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85myvdre11.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
In article <85myvdre11.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 23/09/2007, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>>
>>> So Dave, guess what, my advice .....RTFM!
>>
>>
>> No Tim, I'd never found either of those indices.
>
>Then perhaps it would be time to get acquainted with the documentation
>system of Emacs. Use the menu Help/Search Documentation/Look up
>Subject in User Manual and type "revert" into it. Or use Help/Search
>Documentation/Emacs Terminology and type "revert".
>
>If you have not found the information, it is because you did not even
>think of asking Emacs for it. The "Help" menu is there for a purpose.
>
>> Yes, another index, presuming familiarity with the oddities of
>> texinfo. Eli tells me that it is the official policy of gnu. I find
>> that archaic.
>
>A working fast and efficient tool that is easy to use is not lightly
>replaced. Hammers might be archaic tools, but they still do the job
>of driving nails.
>
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/search/index.php?type_of_search=soft&words=%%%
>> there isn't even a general gnu documentation list, seems that
>> texinfo is a given and not open to a challenge.
>
>There is no working challenge around. HTML does not contain useful
>indexing and structuring information.
>
>--
>David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 18:22 My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Bruce Korb
2007-09-20 23:40 ` David Hansen
2007-09-21 9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-21 11:21 ` Dave Pawson
[not found] ` <mailman.1105.1190373701.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21 11:36 ` Joost Kremers
2007-09-21 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-21 19:17 ` Tom Tromey
2007-09-22 5:04 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 8:56 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 13:12 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 16:26 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 16:37 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 18:36 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1154.1190466767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 7:45 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.1149.1190451373.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 6:49 ` Tim X
2007-09-23 8:26 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-23 11:13 ` Bastien
2007-09-23 16:14 ` Tom Tromey
2007-09-23 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1193.1190574615.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-24 0:38 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-24 4:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 8:54 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.1189.1190565460.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 16:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 17:27 ` Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <mailman.1192.1190569877.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 18:03 ` Joost Kremers
2007-10-17 23:19 ` David Combs
[not found] ` <mailman.1147.1190437481.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.\x04org>
2007-09-23 5:56 ` Tim X
2007-09-23 7:18 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-23 5:01 ` Tim X
2007-09-23 6:25 ` Dave Pawson
[not found] ` <mailman.1172.1190528732.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 8:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 8:56 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-23 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.\x041177.1190537774.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 9:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 23:23 ` David Combs [this message]
2007-09-24 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 8:36 ` David Hansen
2007-09-24 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-24 22:41 ` Emre Sahin
2007-09-24 23:10 ` Bastien
2007-09-25 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 21:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 21:46 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-26 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-26 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 11:06 ` Emre Sahin
2007-09-25 21:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1254.1190675441.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-25 5:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-25 7:08 ` Bastien
2007-09-24 8:05 ` Tim X
2007-09-24 16:12 ` Sean Sieger
2007-09-24 0:15 ` Sean Sieger
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