From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, rms@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Splitting gnus.texi
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:07:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9y7euq7sb.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mir5ys2a1.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:23:18 +0900")
On Wed, Sep 26 2007, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
> [...] 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.
Additionally, splitting destroys CVS annovate (vc-annotoate). I also
see no problem with the size.
Bye, Reiner.
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2007-09-24 17:10 ` Splitting gnus.texi (was: Split man directory) Reiner Steib
2007-09-25 10:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-26 0:23 ` Splitting gnus.texi Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-09-26 6:07 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2007-09-30 20:50 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-30 21:34 ` Reiner Steib
2007-09-30 21:46 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-26 8:55 ` Juri Linkov
2007-09-26 18:14 ` Directory doc/gnus in Emacs CVS (was: Splitting gnus.texi) Reiner Steib
2007-10-20 22:33 ` Directory doc/gnus in Emacs CVS Bill Wohler
2007-10-21 9:37 ` Reiner Steib
2007-10-21 16:26 ` Richard Stallman
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