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Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:26 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) |
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:00:03 +0100 "akaiser@visi.com" <akaiser@visi.com>
> wrote:
>
> ac> Look through this newsgroup for all the places a response has said
> ac> "Have you tried function such-and-such", or "that behavior is
> ac> controlled by variable X except that the default is variable Y". If
> ac> the documentation were better, much of that would disappear.
> ...
> ac> a literate, conscientious user with decades of programming
> ac> experience, decades of experience writing documentation, decades of
> ac> using emacs, and decades of support for free software
>
> If you have so much experience you know rule #1 of writing manuals:
>
> They Won't Read It.
>
> followed by rule #2:
>
> They Still Won't Read It.
>
> and then rule #3:
>
> They'll Complain About It.
You forgot rule #4:
To Justify not Reading It.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Tim Landscheidt, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, address@hidden, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Lennart Borgman, 2010/05/04
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- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/05/05
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2010/05/05
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Jay Belanger, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Uday S Reddy, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs,
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- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Galen Boyer, 2010/05/04
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Joel J. Adamson, 2010/05/05
- Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Uday S Reddy, 2010/05/04
Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Daniel, 2010/05/04
Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, despen, 2010/05/04
Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs, Stefan Kamphausen, 2010/05/04