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: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:48:41 +0300 Message-ID: References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <85hd3k9y22.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <446F9027.50409@student.lu.se> <85bqts9wjx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7dbe73ed0605201544u3e34e12fx3eab4307e653671c@mail.gmail.com> <853bf49uft.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7dbe73ed0605210257n6e89d6b8vdba5561fcc93c3bd@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148237353 5967 80.91.229.2 (21 May 2006 18:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 20:49:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhszE-0004Du-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 20:49:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FhszD-0003Lb-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:49:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhsz1-0003K2-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhsz0-0003HU-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhsz0-0003HG-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fht2n-0000l1-Ed; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:52:50 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-141-146.inter.net.il [84.228.141.146]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EFZ05935 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 21 May 2006 21:48:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: "Mathias Dahl" In-reply-to: <7dbe73ed0605210257n6e89d6b8vdba5561fcc93c3bd@mail.gmail.com> (mathias.dahl@gmail.com) 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:54965 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 11:57:47 +0200 > From: "Mathias Dahl" > Cc: "Lennart Borgman" , > "Eli Zaretskii" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > And, I won't give in here, "forcing" new users to > use this (for some of them at least) "strange" Info interface when we > could also provide a link (it would not need to be the default) to > some HTML-version of the documentation, is a pity. Just because we No one's forcing anyone. The HTML version of the Emacs manuals is accessible on-line at the GNU Web site. > For example, we could add a new menu item, "Read the manual online" > (or maybe "Read the HTML manual online") under the sub menu Help -> > More manuals. I hate programs that reach out to the network to read the docs. If I need to find an external doc, I will do it myself.