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Re: Emacs Windows FAQ
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Windows FAQ |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:02:56 -0400 |
> From: Uday S Reddy <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:33:00 +0100
>
> Your original proposal was to "simply remove" the Windows Emacs FAQ from the
> web site.
That wasn't what I suggested.
> If you want to amend that to say, transfer all the information to Emacs FAQ
> and *then* remove it from the web site, I would obviously have no objection.
_This_ is what I suggested.
> But, who is going to do it?
Some volunteer, as usual.
> Another factor that concerns me is that the Windows Emacs FAQ is not just an
> Emacs FAQ. It also answers questions about how to integrate Emacs with other
> components of the "GNU operating system" on Windows or even the "Windows
> operating system". For instance, questions like how do I unpack the
> distribution, how do I get it to work with Internet Explorer, and so on. Do
> you want to put all such information on the general Emacs FAQ?
Sure, why not? The Emacs FAQ already contains similar info.
> A third factor is that the Windows Emacs FAQ was produced by a community of
> users who knew exactly what the issues were. It is very hard, if not
> impossible, for developer teams produce such FAQs because they think in an
> entirely different plane.
??? Aren't the "developer team" also users of Emacs on Windows who
need to overcome these difficulties (and have done so)?
> I have been in a lot of situations where sys-admins got rid of documentation
> produced by user teams because they were supposedly "obsolete", but they
> ended up replacing them with other documentation which was way inferior.
Only someone who doesn't know my views well can suggest that this is
my drift. You will find a lot of my messages where I _object_ to
removing support for seemingly-"obsolete" features, platforms, etc.
Heck, I'm the one who insists on maintaining the DOS port of Emacs,
remember?