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RE: Emacs lisp reference manual version 2.7?
From: |
Richard.G.Bielawski |
Subject: |
RE: Emacs lisp reference manual version 2.7? |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:44:49 -0500 |
>PS A month ago I proposed to delete the edition number from the online
> versions of the manual but you voted against it.
Yes, mine came from
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_mono/elisp.html
where the
same version can still be found.
And I would second the vote against removing the version number. As a
newbee I
depended on that (perhaps wrongly) telling me if I'd found a newer
version of
the manual in html format (which I always looked/wished for).
I depended on the html version for 2 reasons. 1 it was easily printed
(1
keystroke gave me the whole manual). 2 remembering the editing
keychords was a
monumental enough task that remembering the keys for accessing and
searching the
built in help (which are completely different from keys I'd use to
search the
text I was editing!) was just too much. Plus, INFO limits my view too
much. I
can only see one INFO node at a time. In one-page html I can view as
much as
will fit on my screen (which is pretty much on dual 24" 1980x1200
monitors).
Now, I know the keys but still don't use INFO. I know where things are
so I can
just use a hard-copy. Formatted like this:
makeinfo --html --no-headers --no-split
printed 4-up duplex with a spiral binding, I see 8 pages at once and it
doesn't
take a single pixel away from my view of whatever I'm working on. Not
to
mention I can get up and walk around while reading it, stick bookmarks
in it,
write notes in it ... get back to work Rick.. Ok Bye.