From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: 14 Mar 2004 07:53:33 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079245076 21313 80.91.224.253 (14 Mar 2004 06:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 06:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 14 07:17:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2Owa-0005Wv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2Owa-0006nD-01 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 07:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OuJ-00033p-1e for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:15:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OZL-0001tb-5Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:53:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OYe-0001eY-LJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:53:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2OWm-0000xF-CH; Sun, 14 Mar 2004 00:51:12 -0500 Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-reply-to: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:55:54 +0000 (GMT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20442 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20442 > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:55:54 +0000 (GMT) > From: Alan Mackenzie > > >The Emacs manual does not attempt to document all Emacs features. > >Probably half of them are not included. It would be a bad idea to add > >them; that would make the book too expensive. Please don't think they > >are "missing". > > Ah, right, the book. I hadn't thought of that, and most people round > emacs-devel probably never use it anyway. But it's presumably an > important source of income for the FSF. It would seem there are three > desirable attributes goals for the manual: > > 1/- It should be complete and accurate. > 2/- The printed and online versions should be the same. > 3/- The printed version should not be too big. > > We can decide upon any two of these, but we can't have all three at the > same time. :-( Yes we can: we could make a separate manual that isn't printed as part of the Emacs manual. Then users can print it on their own. We already do that for several major Emacs features. Any volunteers?