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#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 09:42:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83k16z73qj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0crpzxg.5.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="168620"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 38601@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 14 08:43:09 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 1ig24z-000hiX-AL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 08:43:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57030 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24y-0002mY-2B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:43:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24s-0002mQ-Ta for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24r-0000kV-Qm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57179) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24r-0000jW-MC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:43:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24r-0004s3-KC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:43:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38601 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38601-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38601.157630934918633 (code B ref 38601); Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38601) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2019 07:42:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34919 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24K-0004qQ-TI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32855) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24I-0004pz-W2 for 38601@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:42:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24D-00079O-AX; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:42:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2891 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ig24C-0004Zh-Jf; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:42:20 -0500 In-reply-to: <87d0crpzxg.5.fsf@jidanni.org> 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:173305 Archived-At: > From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson > > Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:29:31 +0800 > > ^L > Electric-Indent minor mode (no indicator): > Toggle on-the-fly reindentation (Electric Indent mode). > With a prefix argument ARG, enable Electric Indent mode if ARG is > positive, and disable it otherwise. If called from Lisp, enable > the mode if ARG is omitted or nil. > > When enabled, this reindents whenever the hook ‘electric-indent-functions’ > returns non-nil, or if you insert a character from ‘electric-indent-chars’. > > This is a global minor mode. To toggle the mode in a single buffer, > use ‘electric-indent-local-mode’. > ^L > > The problem is, it doesn't mention how to turn it on and off! Actually, it does: that's the last sentence above. > The user has to click on each line right after an ^L, to learn that he > simply needs to do e.g., > > (electric-indent-mode &optional ARG) That's not a user command, that's a Lisp way of doing this stuff, and therefore doesn't have to be anywhere near the beginning of the help text. So I think we should close this as a non-b ug.