From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: 71284@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#71284: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add support for outline-minor-mode to Eshell
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 08:58:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867cf9p5lj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29dd5f9d-0467-1a80-438f-a516b20e34e1@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Fri, 31 May 2024 12:33:32 -0700)
> Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 12:33:32 -0700
> Cc: 71284@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>
> On 5/30/2024 11:05 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Seriously, though: since it is completely un-obvious what would
> > outline-minor-mode mean for command-line-oriented modes like Eshell,
> > both NEWS and the Eshell manual should say at least a couple of words
> > about what that does. We cannot get away by just mentioning the
> > support and keeping silent about the rest.
>
> Good point. I'd tried to write some more docs previously but was very
> unsatisfied with my attempt. After sleeping on it, I've tried again (see
> attached).
>
> I added a preliminary commit here to move some of the existing docs into
> a new "Interaction" section, since I think the manual should really
> split out the documentation of commands and their syntax from how to use
> Eshell *interactively*. (I split this out since the diff is fairly
> large, but the changes aren't all that exciting: it just moves things
> from one spot to another, and adds some new index entries.)
>
> That provides a better spot to explain this new outline-minor-mode
> support. I also filled in documentation for a few of the existing
> navigation commands available in Eshell.
Thanks, LGTM.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-31 5:18 bug#71284: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add support for outline-minor-mode to Eshell Jim Porter
2024-05-31 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-31 19:33 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-01 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-31 6:51 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-31 20:02 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-02 6:37 ` Juri Linkov
2024-06-03 4:34 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-03 6:45 ` Juri Linkov
2024-06-06 1:52 ` Jim Porter
2024-06-06 6:19 ` Juri Linkov
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