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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:37:35 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: 19 Mar 2004 12:31:07 -0500
>
> But using the index, you'd just say `info libc strcpy'.
For that example, sure. But what about false hits in the concept
index? Do we really want them to pop up?
> And if you tell info to include libc's index by default, you can
> just say `info strcpy'
Are we going to single-case the libc manual? If not, what do we do
with "info sit-for" or "info point"?
> My model here is `man' where `man FOO' tries to guess in which section the
> thing is placed and `man FOO BAR' looks for BAR in section FOO.
Well, Info manuals are simply not organized like that, so the `man'
model might not be applicable as easily as we'd like.
Btw, I feel quite frustrated sometimes when "man printf" shows me the
man page of printf(1). I think that's about the worst guess as one
can get.
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), (continued)
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/23
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/24
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Kim F. Storm, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/23
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/19
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/19
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Miles Bader, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/21
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/22