From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38601: describe-mode never says the most important thing Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:43:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87d0crpzxg.5.fsf@jidanni.org> <83k16z73qj.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4027"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 38601@debbugs.gnu.org, =?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 18 18:56:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lYAiE-0000th-Uz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:43:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83k16z73qj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2019 09:42:12 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:204369 Archived-At: tags 38601 notabug close 38601 thanks Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: =E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC 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 =E2=80=98electric-inden= t-functions=E2=80=99 >> returns non-nil, or if you insert a character from =E2=80=98electric-i= ndent-chars=E2=80=99. >> >> This is a global minor mode. To toggle the mode in a single buffer, >> use =E2=80=98electric-indent-local-mode=E2=80=99. >> ^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. OK, closing.