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Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.
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David Kastrup |
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Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. |
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Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:13:18 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Rasmus <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:12:00 +0100
>>
>> > IMO, that's largely a waste of your time and energy: the manual is
>> > rarely if ever read in its entirety, or even in large portions. Most
>> > of its uses is to quickly find the subject whose description you need,
>> > hopefully by using the Info-index command ("i TOPIC RET"), and read
>> > that and perhaps some of the cross-references there. With this use
>> > case, the level on which a description is found is irrelevant.
>>
>> But by lifting it, it would appear more prominently in the TOC.
>
> Only in the printed book, maybe. The TOC of the Info manual is flat:
> all the nodes appear on the same level.
Are we talking about the same Info manual here? That of Emacs? That
with the
— The Detailed Node Listing —
———————————
Here are some other nodes which are really subnodes of the ones
already listed, mentioned here so you can get to them in one step:
section?
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David Kastrup
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., (continued)
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Kaushal Modi, 2015/12/16
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., John Wiegley, 2015/12/17
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Rasmus, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Rasmus, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., David Kastrup, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., David Kastrup, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/19