Re: Auto Fill Comments

[Christopher Dimech]

Re-Writing is a basic tenet amongst writers, but not among programmers it seems.


> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 8:46 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:15:58 +0100
> >
> > And if you ask for help everybody is suddenly quiet.  I would be pissed
> > off.  I don't know where Eli's motivation comes from.
>
> My motivation comes from the urge to keep improving the Emacs
> documentation.  I cannot possibly do that with "criticism" that just
> says our documentation sucks and should be rewritten, because that's
> not useful: I don't know how to convert that to any useful list of
> things to fix.
>
> And, of course, saying that the manuals should be rewritten is a clear
> sign that the person probably doesn't know how to use the Info mode
> efficiently, and probably didn't read too much of said documentation.
> Which further diminishes the useful payload of such claims.
>
>