Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/13/05:11:23
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Orlando Andico wrote:
> Perhaps there should be a "short FAQ" with pointers to the rather daunting
> "big FAQ" which is justifiably so big that there will come a time when the
This is already done. If you need an answer for a specific question, you
should look it up either in the table of contents or in the indices at
the end of the FAQ. I submit that new users should read the entire FAQ,
at least superficially, but people who don't want to read the whole thing
can just look up their problems or issues that are of interest to them
using the contents and the indices. (I'm unsure about whether people
actually use the indices, though, and if so, what are their experience,
because nobody ever told me anything about this.)
I think making 2 FAQ lists instead of one will add to confusion and make
their maintenance more complex. So I want to make the FAQ easily
searchable so it won't be necessary to read large chunks of text just to
find an answer to a specific question.
> (text) version will be too large to read with QEdit.. but then, all the
> more reason to use Emacs compiled with DJGPP.. :)
Why don't you read the Info version of the FAQ with info.exe? It has a
search command. The search strategy should be this:
* Go to one of the 2 indices.
* Use `s' (search) command to search for the word(s) pertinent to
your problem, or just browse through the index (it's organized in
alphabetic order) and look up the issue you are interested in.
* Use `m' (menu-item) command to go to the section which
references the issue.
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