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Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info mus
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die |
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Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:18:39 +0200 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
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> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:58:16 +0900
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> > > Paul is on the side of the angels, he just wants to add a new useful
> > > tool (web search)
> >
> > That's a no-brainer.
>
> Apparently the word "just" was not. Despite his disclaimers, you took
> his post as a deprecation of manuals in Info format.
Yes. And I stand by that interpretation.
> > No one said anything to the contrary, so there's no need to argue
> > with that non-existing argument.
>
> Please slow down, Eli. Nobody said there was an argument with that.
> My intention was to imply that you seem to be misinterpreting his post
> which was intended to say that, and not intended to say that web search
> should *replace* Info indexes.
Based on what Paul wrote since then (cf. "inferior technology"), I
think my interpretation was not a mistake.
> > Web search is a valuable tool when you want to expand on the
> > information you found in the manuals. However, for information
> > that is in the manuals, Info is usually faster and more accurate.
>
> "Nobody said anything to the contrary, so why are you arguing with
> that nonexistent argument?"
Because someone did say that. Several someone's, in fact.
> Some people are arguing that for them and for people like them Emacs
> manuals at present do *not* have the necessary information indexed,
> and that therefore web search is a relatively cheap way to improve
> access to information about Emacs. A few deprecate Info manuals[1],
> it's true, but surely Paul doesn't.
I have no argument with those "some" (and actually did some work
yesterday to improve on that), but violently disagree with those
"few". I don't think I've misinterpreted to which group Paul belongs,
but that doesn't really matter, as my problem is with the views of
those "few", not with them personally.
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- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Yuri Khan, 2014/12/22
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- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Yuri Khan, 2014/12/23
- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Paul Eggert, 2014/12/22
- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/22
- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/12/23
- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/23
- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/12/23
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- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/23
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- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/24
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- Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/23
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