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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) |
Date: |
21 Mar 2004 07:55:56 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:27:09 -0500
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
>
> Consider a toolkit that come with 34 different libraries (which normally you
> just always link against); it's fairly likely that it comes with just one
> info manual covering everything. This is probably good: the programmer is
> more likely to think of the function as being in `that toolkit', than he is
> to quickly remember which library it's in (though he can probably figure it
> out).
In that case, "info toolkit FOO" would do the job, and is the right
command for the case when all those libraries are described in a
single manual.
> Anyway, the point is that the mapping is often fuzzy
Are you saying that it's easier to remember the mapping of man
sections?
> why not take advantage of that and reduce the burden on the
> programmer when looking up documentation?
The question is, how to do that without imposing too heavy penalties
on all parties involved (i.e. the end user in terms of run-time
performance, the Texinfo maintainers, and manual authors).
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), (continued)
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/19
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/19
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Miles Bader, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/21
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/21
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/21
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/15
Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/11