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AH HA! it's a MENU item! Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice aga


From: David Combs
Subject: AH HA! it's a MENU item! Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:23:23 +0000 (UTC)

In article <85myvdre11.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup  <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 23/09/2007, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>>
>>> So  Dave, guess what, my advice .....RTFM!
>>
>>
>> No Tim, I'd never found either of those indices.
>
>Then perhaps it would be time to get acquainted with the documentation
>system of Emacs.  Use the menu Help/Search Documentation/Look up
>Subject in User Manual and type "revert" into it.  Or use Help/Search
>Documentation/Emacs Terminology and type "revert".
>
>If you have not found the information, it is because you did not even
>think of asking Emacs for it.  The "Help" menu is there for a purpose.
>
>> Yes, another index, presuming familiarity with the oddities of
>> texinfo.  Eli tells me that it is the official policy of gnu. I find
>> that archaic.
>
>A working fast and efficient tool that is easy to use is not lightly
>replaced.  Hammers might be archaic tools, but they still do the job
>of driving nails.
>
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/search/index.php?type_of_search=soft&words=%%%
>> there isn't even a general gnu documentation list, seems that
>> texinfo is a given and not open to a challenge.
>
>There is no working challenge around.  HTML does not contain useful
>indexing and structuring information.
>
>-- 
>David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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