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From: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel LaLiberte)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs manual sales figures [summary]
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Date: 27 Feb 91 19:19:57 GMT
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In-Reply-To: hollen@megatek.UUCP's message of 27 Feb 91 16:11:37 GMT

> From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
> I DON'T recommend the manual.  Without knowing the name of exactly
> the function you want, it is impossible to look it up in the index.

I agree it is difficult to look things up in the user manual.  That is
why I created that permuted index for the elisp manual.  It is a few
pages longer, but I am pretty much guaranteed to find what I am looking
for with one lookup.

Someone needs to go through the user manual adding index entries, and
then replace the standard index with a combined, permuted index.  I
volunteer to do the latter if others will do the former.

Dan LaLiberte
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu