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Re:Emacs 26.1 released by henry_flower on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:01AM (#17188205)
just a user; wrote several elisp pkgs

> Not being paid for a labour of love does not make one exempt from criticism.

I'm fine w/ criticism; I'm just of an opinion that the word "shit" is a bit too much; also I'm fascinated how the current emacs maintainer handles such a complex proj

> The software's user interface

which part? the majority of the user-visible 'interface' consists of so called interactive elisp cmds (runnable via M-x ...); the help for such cmds (or the whole modes) gets extracted from the corresponding fn comments & gets updated in real time when/if the code changes.

> and on-line documentation should be implemented in my language, but it's available only in English.

this is tough. the user's manual is huge. it'd probably take a year for a pro translator to produce a meaningful result

the elisp manual is even bigger

the tutorial is available in multiple lang, though

>> M-x speedbar That displays a hierarchical file browser in a separate window, not a list of documents.

click w/ the rigth btn in the speedbar win: a popup menu will appear. select speedbar->displays->buffers

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