> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:36:19 -0400 > > I was talking about user-level features and the User's Manual, not the > Lisp Manual. > > The appendix that is suggested does not belong in the Emacs Manual.
Why not, if it describes user-level features? > There already is a section on Windows usage in the Emacs Manual. No, there's an appendix called "MS-DOS" which describes mostly the DOS port and a small number of Windows related issues. > But > it is not the mission of the Emacs Manual to "describe all those > w32-SOMETHING functions and variables", any more than it is its mission > to describe all the functions and variables that are NOT specifically > for Windows. > > In nearly every aspect of Emacs, _completeness is not the goal_. This is not about completeness in any sense; perhaps the word "all" in "all those w32-SOMETHING functions" misled you to think that is what I was asking for. It isn't. There's a large number of issues specific to using Emacs on Windows that is not explained anywhere in the Emacs Manual. Some of the w32-SOMETHING functions and variables should be made known to Emacs users because they provide essential features without which some users would be simply lost. In addition, there are quite a few Windows-specific issues not related directly to any function or variable that should also be available in the manual. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
