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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: apropos apropos [was: how do i find out the platform emacs runs on?]
Date: 24 Nov 2003 14:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u7k1qx7bx.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4kjspb.57.ln@acm.acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:39:16 +0000)

> From: Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:39:16 +0000
> 
> As a matter of interest, how should I have discovered the existence of
> these commands?

Help->Search Documentation from the menubar could be one way to find
out.

However, I know about these commands for such a long time that I
cannot even remember how I learned about their existence.  Probably,
from NEWS or something.

> Could it be that the "help" system could do with enhancement?

It is IMHO a trivium that any help system of any software could do
with enhancement ;-)  The question is: how?  Please feel free to
suggest improvements if you have specific ideas.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-24 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24  4:42 how do i find out the platform emacs runs on? leo
2003-11-24  6:11 ` Ola Nilsson
2003-11-25  3:53   ` leo
2003-11-26  9:32   ` seki
2003-11-26 17:21     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-26 17:35       ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-26 17:36     ` Phillip Lord
2003-11-26 22:29       ` Ehud Karni
2003-11-27 10:02       ` Sébastien Kirche
2003-11-24  6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.485.1069658500.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-24  9:39   ` apropos apropos [was: how do i find out the platform emacs runs on?] Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-24 12:46     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-11-24 18:45     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-24 21:03       ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-25 17:40         ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.496.1069681832.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-29 10:50       ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-30  6:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01  9:03   ` how do i find out the platform emacs runs on? Svend Tollak Munkejord
2003-12-01 13:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01 19:15     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.851.1070328153.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-02  8:20       ` Svend Tollak Munkejord
2003-12-02 17:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.924.1070390102.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-03  8:42           ` Svend Tollak Munkejord

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