Re: Upcoming merge of adaptive-wrap

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 26/01/2024 04:22, Po Lu wrote:
> > Scanning though the latter's output should be much easier (and faster)
> > than going through the NEWS files several releases back, or reading
> > through all the manuals that come with Emacs.
> It is much easier to overlook entries in a list of 1139 one-line
> descriptions than in a document where each item is illustrated in
> reasonable detail and grouped with related entries along semantic lines.
> Moreover, it is only necessary to read NEWS once, after installing a new
> release of Emacs.

If you're talking about getting a feature known to the maximum number of 
users possible (and not just hardcore ones who are with us for decades 
and scrutinize every new release), a lot of those potential users either 
have been using Emacs a while and don't read NEWS for every release, or 
will install their first Emacs of some later version than the one that 
the feature X has been added (and thus will miss all older NEWS files).

1139 one-liner summaries, OTOH, are always searchable with C-s.