From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65260 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Splitting gnus.texi Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:23:18 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87fy1v36be.fsf@neutrino.caeruleus.net> <87fy1ut4hp.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190766228 438 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2007 00:23:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:23:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, ding@gnus.org, Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 26 02:23:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IaKgo-0008EE-9f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaKgl-00076m-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaKgi-00076g-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IaKgh-00076I-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IaKgh-00076F-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IaKgb-0005AF-W4; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.225.201.151] (port=33810 helo=mail.jpl.org) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IaKgX-0005jY-Ri; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:23:26 -0500 X-Hashcash: 1:20:070926:rms@gnu.org::FBu3+QezE2rIkHi7:00000023Xz X-Hashcash: 1:20:070926:reiner.steib@gmx.de::M+AU8bpClDPZlrOw:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000488S X-Hashcash: 1:20:070926:juri@jurta.org::Ruw9MNH8UOZW0olD:0000cON X-Hashcash: 1:20:070926:emacs-devel@gnu.org::AW0h8YapWK6UVGYI:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001aha X-Hashcash: 1:20:070926:ding@gnus.org::CBtiLyaCun9qXZt6:00002Adn X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`; Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu; B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h/buZLkY/SmFH+TziMLv1cv9Z0o= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Detected-Kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79878 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65260 Archived-At: >>>>> Richard Stallman wrote: > It would be good to split gnus.texi into 10 to 15 files > just because it is so big. Similar for calc.texi. At least for gnus.texi, I don't see the benefit of splitting. It's indeed big, but is not too big to edit with Emacs. Rather, I cannot ignore a disadvantage of splitting it. I sometimes write in it. Since various Gnus functions are related mutually, I frequently check other items concerned when I write something. For example, when I write description about nntp, I have to check whether my writing does not conflict with descriptions of other sections. When I hesitate whether I should add @vindex for the nntp-foo-bar variable, I scan the whole gnus.texi. I do also it when I examine it should be @acronym{NNTP}, @code{nntp}, or NNTP. Now I only need to type `C-s nntp' for them. But if gnus.texi is split into 10 to 15 files, it will be quite troublesome. I can agree with splitting if it is very useful to users, though. Regards,