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Re: Emacs documentation sources


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Emacs documentation sources
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:53:00 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:04:57 +0100
>> From: "Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
>> 
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/CategoryDocumentation
>
> IMO, it should describe much more Info-mode commands.  Without using
> the manual, the Emacs help system is quite crippled, especially for
> newbies.  Doc strings not always target newbies, because they cannot
> be too wordy (due to considerations of memory footprint of the running
> Emacs).

Uh what?  Doc strings are not placed in the memory of Emacs except for
those of uncompiled Lisp code.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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