From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37925: 26.3; Elisp manual: add index entry for sets/kinds of variables Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 10:02:26 +0300 Message-ID: <838sp8vvjx.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="17935"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37925@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 26 09:03:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG6R-0004QV-ID for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 09:03:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38436 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG6Q-0002Gd-3T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG6J-0002EX-GR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG6I-0006zT-Bg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG6I-0006zN-8i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG6I-0004mx-1j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37925 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37925-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37925.157207336618384 (code B ref 37925); Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37925) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Oct 2019 07:02:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39643 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG62-0004mM-4M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33942) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG60-0004m5-IR; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG5v-0006rN-6I; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:02:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3442 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iOG5u-0008HF-Gz; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:02:38 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:43:40 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170177 Archived-At: tags 37925 wishlist moreinfo thanks > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:43:40 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > Please consider adding index entries that correspond directly to these > node names. A user should be able to do, for example (and preferably > with or without the hyphen): > > i mode-line variables > > Today that's not possible. Yes, it is possible today, because each variable is indexed by its name. So, for example "i mode-line TAB" will show the list of all the variables (and some other related topics as well). In general, the technique of working with index entries that I recommend is to try the text you thought about initially, in this case "mode-line variables", and if that doesn't bring anything useful, remove some text from the end and try again, with TAB. (That is assuming the above text is something you really thought about in some real-life use case, and not a synthetic example of no practical importance.) Please consider describing use cases where the name of the variable, or the results of TAB as above, will not let the user arrive to the place where he or she needs to be. Otherwise, what you ask for is to provide one more index entry that begins like many others we already have and points to the same place, something that is not useful, and we therefore avoid it. Thanks.