Re: Have you all gone crazy? Was: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Tom]

David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Well, one problem is that the manuals are really effective for learning
> a lot in one learning session.  And that's a good deal for getting
> better with using Emacs.  But it doesn't match modern attention spans.

Exactly. Users want to get the information fast and it is much
faster to search for something in google than trying to find
the relevant section of the manual.

The manual is great for looikng up again something which you know
where to find. E.g. what kind of text properties are there?

C-h i -> m elisp -> g -> text properties

But if you want to lookup something unfamiliar then google is much
more efficient.

I wonder how many people read the manual from the beginning to the
end like a book. These days (when average attention span is very
short due to years of filtering through huge volumes of information
on the net) I'd guess not many.