Re: Quite a few emacs questions

[David Kastrup]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> mowgli <knowledgeless@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Thanks for the info. I'll avoid posting to both ngs. Could you tell me
>> the difference in both the groups?
>
> comp.emacs is for questions about any emacsen, may it be GNU Emacs,
> XEmacs or SXEmacs. This group is only about GNU Emacs.

Uh, not really.  For XEmacs or SXEmacs, the group comp.emacs.xemacs is
quite more appropriate.  However, gnu.emacs.help is indeed a group
focused on _helping_ people with particular problems.  While
comp.emacs may be appropriate for discussing, say, architectural
issues across the whole Emacs clan range, gnu.emacs.help is more
focused on a particular installation, and for those, it is really
mostly appropriate for Emacs as such.  It is also gated to a mailing
list, and pretty much every other actively employed Emacs variant has
its own user-level/help mailing list.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum