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RE: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying |
Date: |
Tue, 4 May 2004 13:58:35 -0700 |
> I think it used to put the minor modes after the major mode. The
> problem was, people did not even know the minor mode info was there.
In Emacs 20, the first two lines said this:
The major mode is described first.
For minor modes, see following pages.
So users knew the minor mode info was there, and they saw the major mode
info first.
>> E.g., make the layout something like:
>> (Information on [minor modes] comes after the major mode
description)
> This might be ok. It should also suggest typing C-x ] C-x ] to get to
> the minor mode information. That should always work, since the major
> mode doc string should never contain a page break.
C-x ] and C-x [ are not obvious. And the pages are all displayed together
(at least in Emacs 20): ^L is all that appears as page separator, so the
buffer is quite busy.
Instead of using separate pages in the same buffer, why not use separate
incarnations of the *Help* buffer. `C-h m' would display just a one-liner
about each mode in *Help*, with a link for each mode (part or all of the
one-liner) to its detailed description:
Major mode
SQL[oracle] mode: Major mode to edit SQL.
Minor modes
Font-Lock minor mode (no indicator): Toggle Font Lock mode.
...
If there are no minor modes, just show the major-mode doc directly.
The links would display the individual mode descriptions in *Help*, with a
back button. Less busy. Uses links instead of C-x ] to navigate.
Drawback: cannot see (or print) everything at once. Would that be worth
another link/button that displays everything at once (separate pages)?
- Drew
- describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/03
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Juanma Barranquero, 2004/05/04
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Romain Francoise, 2004/05/04
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/04
- RE: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/04
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/04
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/05
- RE: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Drew Adams, 2004/05/05
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Juri Linkov, 2004/05/06
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/04