From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 40915@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40915: [PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:43:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5dc3113-bd3d-432b-8e81-fa58965a0a6a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sif7bng.fsf@stefankangas.se>
> > For (a), what do you mean by a "general" help
> > command? The point of Info-summary is to provide
> > succinct help about Info.
>
> I meant that you can have a command which works in any major mode very
> easily:
>
> (defun Info-summary ()
> "Display a brief summary of all Info commands."
> (interactive)
> (save-window-excursion
> (switch-to-buffer "*Help*")
> (setq buffer-read-only nil)
> (erase-buffer)
> - (insert (documentation 'Info-mode))
> + (insert (documentation major-mode))
> (help-mode)
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (let (ch flag)
> (while (progn (setq flag (not (pos-visible-in-window-p (point-
> max))))
> (message (if flag "Type Space to see more"
> "Type Space to return to Info"))
> (if (not (eq ?\s (setq ch (read-event))))
> (progn (push ch unread-command-events) nil)
> flag))
> (scroll-up)))
> (bury-buffer "*Help*")))
I see. +1.
But maybe consider something like this instead.
IOW, let it be useful for any major mode, from
anywhere, not just for the current major mode.
(defun summarize-major-mode (mode)
(interactive
(list (completing-read
(format "Mode (default %s): " major-mode)
obarray
(lambda (ss)
(and (commandp ss)
(boundp ss)
(string-match-p "-mode\\'"
(symbol-name ss))))
t nil nil major-mode)))
...) ; The rest as you showed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-28 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-27 22:28 bug#40915: [PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive Stefan Kangas
2020-04-28 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 7:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-28 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-28 17:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-28 17:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-28 18:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-08-08 12:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-07 4:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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