Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> This is not true. You do not have to search the whole internet just
> because you use Google. You could do something like this:
>
>    Google: "site:www.gnu.org/software/emacs/24.2/manual/ some thing"
>
> If that folder exists there, of course.

A sizable number of bug reports on LilyPond, a reasonably actively
developed and still evolving project, comes from users who try something
from the manual and find out it doesn't work.

Here usually the problem is the other way round: Google manages to turn
up the newest manuals for the current development version, and people
work with the next-to-previous stable version.

The link the people will reference contains the version number right in
it.  And yet a considerable number of people gets tripped up by that.

If you want to argue based on a mythical "fully competent computer
user", the results will not be representative.

-- 
David Kastrup