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Re: bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byt
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: bug#20968: 25.0.50; Be able to specify the output directory for `byte-compile-file' |
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Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:31:55 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 12:27:48 -0400
>
> > That's not the use case I was talking about. Looking up questions
> > already asked means using a search engine, which will find the answers
> > wherever they are, be it on gnu.emacs.help of stack-overflow.
>
> No, the curating (tagging, voting, and editing) makes a significant
> difference: you don't need to read N different messages (hopefully
> connected via threading) to get the overall picture.
The answers on Stack-overflow present discussion as well. And at
least I always read everything there, not just the "best" answer.
> When I search (via, say, DuckDuckGo) for answers to a particular
> problem, I generally find that the answers I find in stackoverflow are
> generally more directly usable and of higher quality than what I may
> find elsewhere.
Then we may wish to make our answers better and more usable as well.
Again, if we want to; it doesn't sound to me people are too
enthusiastic about this.