Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708051004480.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <85bqdmctcl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

> 
> So please get a grip and focus on what we were actually talking
> about.  Not Emacs, but rather documentation formats.

You're the one who started talking about me expecting people to use *my* editor. I had never done that. I had talked about the _reverse_: the idiocy of emacs users expecting people to use that bloated piece of crap-ware.

Show 5 quoted lines

> > Man-pages with man.
> 
> Actually, Emacs "woman" does a pretty good job with those, offers
> convenient man page name completion and works on Windows and similar
> platforms without needing

See? Can you not see that normal users don't want to have some random emacs crap? In fact, even GNU emacs users (apart from the ones that have used it for more than a decade) don't do it.

So stop this *insane* insistence of emacs. You should learn to just assume that people don't even have it installed!

Anything that works with some random emacs mode is a total non-usable piece of crap as far as most users are concerned.

Show 5 quoted lines

> Focus.  How do you propose to manage documention of a hundred pages an
> more conveniently, finding information easily by text, index,
> hyperlinks?  A single large HTML page?  A documentation directory full
> of *.txt files which you can grep through (not that Emacs would not be
> useful for that, too)?

Oh, a single large html page is certainly better than emacs and info, absolutely. Ask *any* normal person.

The fact that you cannot see that fact is a sign of your personal (and rather odd) preferences.

			Linus