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bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:49:11 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <larsi@gnus.org>, <8900@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:17:23 -0700
>
> > > I disagree. These are real, implementation, user-visible,
> > > runtime names. This is just like indexing command names
> > > or variable names or package names. The exact name should
> > > appear in the index.
> >
> > Not true, at least not until we have a detailed documentation of each
> > encoding there. The absolute majority of coding-systems is not
> > documented in the manual, so there's no real place to put the index
> > entries. I'm not sure there's something intelligent to tell about
> > these encodings in the manual, either.
>
> Doesn't matter that we don't have detailed doc about these. Certainly doesn't
> matter that we don't have detailed doc about *each* coding system.
Well, in that case, we will have to disagree. Having index entries
about something that isn't described is a Bad Thing.
> The fact is that the manual provides some information about these particular
> coding systems. They should be indexed so users can easily find that
> information.
But there's no information to find.
> An index does not refer only to "detailed documentation" about terms. It
> refers
> to terms that we think a user is likely to look for in the book. It is often
> the case that a term is indexed that is only mentioned in the book.
Not in my book.
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2011/07/01
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/02
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2011/07/02
- bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/02
bug#8900: 24.0.50; please index mentioned coding systems in Emacs manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/01