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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: order of manuals in Info...
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:39:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufxj5sndp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007501c97f79$14a0c260$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:43:56 -0800
> 
> 1. What is the ordering scheme used in emacs -Q for the Info manuals?

They are ordered by (loose) topics, with the "main" manuals first.

> If it's supposed to reflect general usefulness or popularity

It isn't.

> Simplest would be alphabetical order - easy to find most entries.

TAB-completion makes everything easy to find.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26  5:43 order of manuals in Info Drew Adams
2009-01-26 22:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-01-26 22:52   ` Drew Adams
2009-01-27  3:40     ` Eli Zaretskii

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