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Re: MH-E manual update
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: MH-E manual update |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:26:21 +0200 |
> Comments: In-reply-to Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> message dated "Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:55:24 -0500."
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:29:41 -0800
> From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > It is not useful for a manual about Emacs to give lots of index entries
> > a variant form that starts with "Emacs". That would bloat the index
> > without being very useful.
>
> Agreed. But that is irrelevant here. MH-E is not a manual about Emacs.
> It is a manual about MH-E. And it is not contained within the Emacs
> manual. And we are only talking about fewer than 30 entries in an index
> with nearly 2000 entries anyway, so it doesn't bloat the index and most
> important, it is useful.
It's being useful that I was concerned about when I wrote that. IMO,
an MH-E users are extremely unlikely to look for information about
Emacs in an MH-E manual. Therefore, they probably won't type "Emacs"
at the `i's command prompt. So I expect those 30 entries to be
rarely, if ever, used.
- Re: MH-E manual update, (continued)
- Re: MH-E manual update, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/11
- Re: MH-E manual update, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/11
- Re: MH-E manual update, Bill Wohler, 2006/03/11
- Re: MH-E manual update, Robert J. Chassell, 2006/03/12
- Re: MH-E manual update, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/13
- Re: MH-E manual update, Robert J. Chassell, 2006/03/13
- Re: MH-E manual update, Bill Wohler, 2006/03/13
- Re: MH-E manual update,
Eli Zaretskii <=