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Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs
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Jay Belanger |
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Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:20 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Please don't tell me "use info",
Then don't use it; the documentation is available in hard copy, html,
etc. What is your preferred form?
> because info is designed and intended not for reading, but for brief,
> casual online reference, and that is its cognitive organization.
Where did you get that idea?
> It's poor as a learning tool, at least for text-based and
> example-based learners like me.
It is text-based, and whether or not an info document is example based
depends (like everything else) on who wrote it.
> I'm a fast reader and I like hectares of well-indexed text with lots
> of bookmarks: that's my best medium.
Good info documentation is made up of hectares of well-indexed text;
bookmarks you can put in yourself.
> If documentation is worth doing -- and I think it is -- then it's
> worth doing well, in a way that meets the needs of the people who'll
> actually use it.
That is what Emacs documentation strives to do. If there is a problem
with it, that is a bug and feel free to report it as such.
> In that light, emacs documentation seems to me to hold up not too
> well.
Nobody is required to like Emacs documentation, but your comments give
the impression that you haven't looked at it.
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Tim X, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Jason Rumney, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs,
Jay Belanger <=
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, despen, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Tim X, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Giorgos Keramidas, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Tim Landscheidt, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04