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Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:16 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux)

"akaiser@visi.com" <akaiser@visi.com> writes:

>>> How I'd love to see complete, up to date, readily usable
>>> documentation!
>> Huh?  Check out the manuals in the "Help" menu.
>
> Not complete,

Huh?

> not up to date,

Huh???

> and not readily usable.

Huh?????

> Readily usable documentation would include complete reference
> information for every function, variable, and macro bundled with emacs
> at every release.

Have you tried the i command in the Elisp manual?

> It would provide some way better than string search to look for
> related concepts.

The concept index, maybe?

> That kind of thing is real work.  I'd be pretty happy with just
> complete and up to date.

It does a rather good job IMO.

-- 
David Kastrup


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