From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Tassilo Horn" <tsdh@gnu.org>,
"Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 18992@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18992: 24.4; describe-mode
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 08:42:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <351f43ff-d3cc-4c04-bd8a-49723c316782@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62c84c79-4884-4b65-b419-0e37f96102e1@default>
> > However, in contrast to major-modes, minor mode names tend to be
> > much longer, so we can get some long lines like:
> >
> > Global-Edit-Server-Edit minor mode (`global-edit-server-edit-
> > mode'; no indicator):
>
> Yes, that violates *Help* conventions. It is better to use this
> (or similar): ...
Actually, we should do similarly for the major mode, even if major
mode names (including `mode-name') *tend* to be shorter. It is good
behavior for functions printing unknown stuff to *Help* to ensure
that lines are not too long, when possible.
Something like this:
(princ " mode")
(let* ((mode major-mode)
(file-name (find-lisp-object-file-name mode nil)))
(when file-name
(princ (concat " defined in `"
(file-name-nondirectory file-name) "'"))
(with-current-buffer standard-output ; Hyperlink to library.
(save-excursion (re-search-backward "`\\([^`']+\\)'" nil t)
(help-xref-button 1 'help-function-def
mode file-name))))
(with-current-buffer standard-output
(insert (format " (`%s'):\n" mode))
(save-excursion
(fill-region-as-paragraph
(line-beginning-position 0) (line-end-position 0) nil t t))))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-08 9:16 bug#18992: 24.4; describe-mode Andreas Röhler
2014-11-08 14:34 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-08 15:54 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-11-08 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-08 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-11-08 16:42 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-12-05 11:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-01-15 2:01 ` Stefan Kangas
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