From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:03:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> <87mxxweqr6.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273047310 27503 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 08:15:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:15:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: akaiser@visi.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 10:15:06 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 1O9Zl0-0001t4-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 10:15:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42818 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Zkz-0000j7-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 04:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NPN-0004bM-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59645 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9NPM-0004ZR-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9NPK-0000mO-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:47836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9NPK-0000mH-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 15:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so3564416fxm.0 for ; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:03:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=czEg6g7wTkhtDa/C+GKWzmBmpq1EjlWI3NhSNZptIyQ=; b=osBG3ScHgx3kS4ZfKC+wLboLXpf3EDxnsAdtX7tDsiMciBlSO/rgIftYU4jvIkHmax AMpnzCcYS+QJF0L66ejpmYB00s0TRu4XK6Kui/wvCzrKwzgW49ufOW9DikaHrKZFa3nu 8zBstbmtw//qOCd7kU33Gqkq/F29ZMgkmpdmE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=H/th5v+721L/iB3r1vJFS2paEdP0+n/ZBlrIMH8wtDWltSuIn2RX0hIifCFBTSGe7h yIbC4dVGqttDLsE0kGBwU2VS34RBlvEDTLnLIkW0GGDN1ozigk8U3M/K8J+bZEAqIE7j vAm6kN53uoyiiVRElveUfx9ZtD6ximjupd1AI= Original-Received: by 10.239.131.211 with SMTP id 19mr1703020hbo.63.1272999829122; Tue, 04 May 2010 12:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.239.164.81 with HTTP; Tue, 4 May 2010 12:03:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:73326 Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:24 PM, akaiser@visi.com wrote: >> For someone who gloats about his own documentation successes >> which I'm not motivated to track down you have marvellously >> bad communication skills to get your point across. > > Noted, Tim, and thanks so much for the help and understanding. There are sure glitches in the manual. It is a live document continously beeing worked on. You can of course contribute on the same term as anyone else. This mean you must be more specific, using examples. Regarding using info I think it works very well. In the beginning I thought html documentation would be better, but I have changed my mind.