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: doc/man vs etc Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:55:22 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189893343 30102 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2007 21:55:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 23:55:41 2007 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 4.50) id 1IWfc1-0003eq-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:55:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWfc0-0002ZD-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWfbx-0002Yz-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IWfbv-0002Yn-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWfbv-0002Yk-8Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWfbq-00073U-PV; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-207-204.inter.net.il [84.228.207.204]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HUQ04396 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:52:42 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <1dk5qrkaih.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:10 -0400) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:78997 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:13:10 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Some of the man pages are still in etc/, AFAICS. Why weren't they > > moved to doc/man, together with those which were moved? > > Because they don't get installed, except as part of the etc/ > directory. If they were moved to doc/man, they would no longer be part > of an installed Emacs. IMO, none of them are worth installing in the > actual MANPATH (or if they are, it's not the job of Emacs to provide > `man sex' hilarity). Funny you'd think my concerns were about sex.6. Actually, I was thinking more about gfdl.1: some files in etc/ and elsewhere used to refer to it (that's why it was introduced in the first place, IIRC). If no file refers to it nowadays, maybe we should just delete it.