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Re: Auto Fill Comments


From: Christopher Dimech
Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:02:02 +0100

> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 8:33 AM
> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Auto Fill Comments
>
> > From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:26:13 +0100
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > > Documentation, however, is to be structured according to different levels
> > > of sophistication.  But I understand it could be a lot of work to 
> > > complete.
> > > Was not my intention to deride anyone. but to describe how it is.  
> > > Documentation
> > > is always better than no documentation.  And everyone does as one can.
> >
> > True. However, Emacs manuals are written by volunteers with limited
> > resources in their spair time (I hack Emacs as a hobby when I drink
> > coffee), so what is practical has also to be take into account. They
> > have to prioritize what level they put themselves on, especially Elisp
> > manual.
>
> That is true, but please point me to a Free Software project that has
> better documentation than Emacs, let alone documentation better
> structured according to different levels of sophistication.

I agree that it is a mainly an optimisation scheme for working on a
complex structure rather than a PR Exercise Among Packages.






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