From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:14:12 -0400 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272999557 13121 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:59:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:59:15 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9NKt-0007Pt-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:59:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60964 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NKs-0000Ro-Uq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:59:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.93.196 Original-X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1269576966 71698 24.34.93.196 (26 Mar 2010 04:16:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:16:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZUjYuLTc3yNXRlcenFM7lWkZrH0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177578 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73065 Archived-At: What do you actually expect from documentation? That, as you read it, it realizes what you are searching for and all of the sudden, you are transported to exactly the statement you need to read? Why don't you actually ask the question a different way? Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to do XXX. What steps should I take to figure out how to perform that in Emacs. Maybe you would learn how Emacs is the "self-documenting editor". -- Galen Boyer --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---