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Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:35:07 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:56:51 +0100
> From: "Phil Betts" <address@hidden>
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote on Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:31 PM::
>
> > I wish people would recommend the Emacs documentation _before_ wiki
> > and the other sites.
>
> The OP said that he'd not yet found "good .emacs-files or tutorials".
> That implied that he'd already looked.
I don't see how this implies that he looked in the user manual.
> Perhaps I was wrong, but since the *first* place I'd look is in the
> program's bundled documentation, I assumed he had too.
I find that assumption is wrong in most cases.
> In any case, AFAIR the bundled tutorial only covers the fundamentals
I didn't mean the tutorial. I meant the user manual and the built-in
documentation and help commands.
> and the documentation doesn't include "good .emacs-files"
Why not? There's a section on the init files and what things go into
it.
> E.g. terminology is often confusing - emacs uses
> "auto-fill" where the rest of the world uses "auto-wrap".
The manual has a Glossary section precisely for that need. I think we
should make a point of telling newbies about its existence, to avoid
terminology problems.
> If you
> apropos for "wrap", you'll find nothing remotely related to word-
> wrapping. As in a lot of technical documentation, if you know where
> to find the answer, you probably already know the answer.
My crystal ball says that you either don't know about the `i'
(Info-index) command, or rarely use it. That command (and the
indexing in the manual) is specifically tuned to those who need to
find things quickly _without_ knowing what they are looking for. I
think we should advertise that feature much more than we do, because
it's under-used.
> Is this EmacsW32 specific documentation, or part of the main emacs
> manual?
The latter, of course. I hate forked efforts; my only gripe about
Lennart's EmacsW32 effort is that it's ``off-Emacs'', not part of the
official package.
- Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, (continued)
- Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Alessandro Vesely, 2006/07/11
- [h-e-w] Re: EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Mathias Dahl, 2006/07/11
- Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/11
- RE: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Drew Adams, 2006/07/11
- [h-e-w] Re: AW: EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Brian Elmegaard, 2006/07/12
RE: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Phil Betts, 2006/07/06
- Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Ken Goldman, 2006/07/06
- Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Lennart Borgman, 2006/07/06
- Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/08
Re: [h-e-w] EmacsW32, gnuserv, pathes in .emacs, David Vanderschel, 2006/07/13