From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:41:48 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020625173305.5938.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20020625155158.5935.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025019752 8985 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2002 15:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MsSd-0002Ko-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17MsUK-0004zj-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:44:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17MsSd-0003PR-00; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.141] (helo=mail.peoplecall.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17MsS6-0003Iv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [62.22.27.143] (jbarranquero.ofi.peoplecall.com [62.22.27.143]) by mail.peoplecall.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5PFfmY31712; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:41:49 +0200 Original-To: "D. Goel" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5197 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5197 On 25 Jun 2002 11:06:54 -0400, "D. Goel" wrote: > FWIW, i think i finally understood a way to get out of this loop --- > invoke a ehelp-buffer, and then press 'r' to retain it, and the > previous loop is gone... He, thanks, I think I'm gonna use it often ;-) > (am a big user or ehelp my C-h-->'ehelp, and have observed all the > same points you mentioned, and imho too, as you said, the buffer > retained upon quitting should be a help buffer, the follow-links > should work, the quit should be clean, the 'ehelp-loop' would do > better to be a 'local' thing somehow... ) Yes. OTOH, I know pretty well that saying "should" is a way of musing "I should" :) What restrains me is that I've studied ehelp.el (and electric.el) for quite a while, and the more I look at it, the more I feel a full rewrite would be the best answer... /L/e/k/t/u