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Agreed; Emacs is the gold standard for documentation. It comes with a reference manual (400k words), an Emacs Lisp reference (600k words), _and_ 64 other manual
by db48x 2y ago
Agreed; Emacs is the gold standard for documentation. It comes with a reference manual (400k words), an Emacs Lisp reference (600k words), _and_ 64 other manuals for individual Emacs modes or features including one just for Calc mode (250k words), a manual just for Org mode (130k words), one for Gnus (180k words) etc. All told it adds up to about 2.6 million words of documentation.
Still, another manual written from a different perspective probably won’t hurt anything.
- beepbooptheory 2y agoThe Gnus manual in particular has certain whimsical Pratchett-esque charm to it that I love so much.
- kstrauser 2y agoThe manual (https://www.gnus.org/manual.html https://www.gnus.org/manual.html) starts with: > See what the critics say about the manual: > “Often when I read the manual, I think that we should take a collection up to have Lars psycho-analysed.”