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Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused. |
Date: |
Fri, 29 May 2009 12:48:39 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:33 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>
> > > Manuals shouldn't be patronising. When a manual implicitly says "if
> > > you can't even figure out what I mean by \"active\", you're stupid",
> > > that's patronising.
>
> > Did the manual actually say that? where?
>
> No, it didn't _actually_ say that, it _implicitly_ said it; or, more
> precisely, that's the message I would hear if I were an Emacs user trying
> to make sense of that page of the manual.
What text, exactly, could send such a message?
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., (continued)
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stefan Monnier, 2009/05/29
- RE: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Drew Adams, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- RE: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Drew Adams, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/05/31
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Andreas Roehler, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Documentation of transient-mark-mode is sloppy, wrong, and confused., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/29