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From: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>, 65905@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65905: 30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> rather than info<3>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jjx94eo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sf7im87e.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:57:57 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 65905@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:04:31 +0800
>> 
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Did you try using "C-h R"?  It will find the existing Info buffer
>> > without your need to remember any numbers.  Just type
>> >
>> >   C-h R org RET
>> >
>> > I have dozens of Info manuals in my Emacs sessions, and I always use
>> > "C-h R" to get to those whose numbers I don't remember (which is all
>> > but the 2 Emacs manuals).
>> 
>> But it's not the same thing, is it?
>
> It's not?  I think it is the same.  You wanted a simply way of getting
> back to a manual that you were reading earlier in the session, which
> you still have in some Info buffer, no?  That's what "C-h R" does: it
> first looks in the Info buffers already present in the session, and,
> if not found, then looks for the manual installed on the system.  In
> your case, the first step will succeed.

Speaking for myself: "C-x b PATTERN TAB" is kind of ingrained in my
muscle memory to switch back to all sorts of buffers I know are open.
So my brain turns "Switch back to that Info buffer for the FOO manual"
into "C-x b info TAB", then I stare blankly at the "*info<N>*"
candidates for a couple of seconds, and pick one at random.

Point taken re. C-h R (which even limits completion to opened manuals
with C-u, neat), though switching buffers with C-x b is such a generic
action that I perform dozens of times an hour without thinking twice,
that I suspect stopping myself from C-x b'ing just for Info buffers is
going to be hard.

Not an urgent issue by any means; just one of the things I plan on
digging into someday.  Adding an option to control that call to `info'
at the end of `info-display-manual' doesn't seem too hard; just haven't
found the time yet (and maybe eventually I'll end up sticking a call to
rename-buffer in Info-mode-hook and calling it a day instead).





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-13 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-13  4:09 bug#65905: 30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> rather than info<3> Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 14:04   ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 14:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-13 15:07       ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 19:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-14  1:13           ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-13 20:58       ` Kévin Le Gouguec [this message]
2023-09-14  2:11         ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2023-09-14  5:59         ` Eli Zaretskii

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