Re: window groups

["René Kyllingstad" <listmailemacs@kyllingstad.com>]

* Stephen Berman:
>  On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:26:39 +0200 martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
>  wrote:
>  
> >> It doesn't even handle the case where you have 2 windows in a frame
> >> and you invoke help.  Instead of burying the help buffer it closes the
> >> window.  Thank you view mode.
> >>
> >> Ie, in Emacs 22.2 -Q: C-x 3 C-h f i f RET C-x o q gives me a one
> >> window configuration, and in an older emacs session often even changes
> >> the buffer displayed in that window. It feels like it goes out of its
> >> way to disrupt my work.
> >
> > This should work with Emacs 23.  Can someone try?
>  
>  Works for me in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>  2.12.0) of 2008-05-29 on escher.

Sweet. Thank you Martin!


That was one thing that has annoyed me since switching from XEmacs. I also
miss the compact disiplay of hyper-apropos bound to C-h a in XEmacs.  Here
is an example as was recently asked for:

Apropos search for: "upcase"

* = command (M-x) or user-variable.
a = autoloaded, b = byte-compiled, i = internal, l = lambda, m = macro.

Functions and Macros:

b  cl-upcase-arg                 
a* dired-upcase                   - Rename all marked (or next ARG) files to upper case.
i  upcase                         - Convert STRING-OR-CHAR to upper case and return that.
i  upcase-initials                - Convert the initial of each word in STRING-OR-CHAR to upper case.
i* upcase-initials-region         - Upcase the initial of each word in the region.
i* upcase-region                  - Convert the region to upper case.  In programs, wants two arguments.
b* upcase-region-or-word          - Upcase the selected region or the following word (or ARG words).
i* upcase-word                    - Convert following word (or COUNT words) to upper case, moving over.
b* wdired-upcase-word             - Wdired version of `upcase-word'.


Variables and Constants:

   byte-upcase                   

---end-of-XEmacs-output---

Compare with M-x apropos on GNU Emacs 22.2:

If moving the mouse over text changes the text's color, you can click
mouse-2 (second button from right) on that text to get more information.
In this buffer, go to the name of the command, or function, or variable,
and type RET to get full documentation.

byte-upcase
  Variable: (not documented)
  Plist: risky-local-variable emacs19-opcode byte-opcode-invert
dired-upcase
  Command: Rename all marked (or next ARG) files to upper case.
  Plist: autoload event-symbol-element-mask event-symbol-elements modifier-cache
get-upcase-table
  Function: Return the upcase table of CASE-TABLE.
set-upcase-syntax
  Function: Make character UC an upcase of character LC.
upcase
  Function: Convert argument to upper case and return that.
  Plist: event-symbol-element-mask event-symbol-elements modifier-cache byte-compile byte-opcode side-effect-free
upcase-initials
  Function: Convert the initial of each word in the argument to upper case.
upcase-initials-region
  Command: Upcase the initial of each word in the region.
  Plist: event-symbol-element-mask event-symbol-elements modifier-cache
upcase-region
  Command: Convert the region to upper case.  In programs, wants two arguments.
  Plist: disabled event-symbol-element-mask event-symbol-elements modifier-cache
upcase-word
  Command: Convert following word (or ARG words) to upper case, moving over.
  Plist: event-symbol-element-mask event-symbol-elements modifier-cache
wdired-upcase-word
  Command: WDired version of `upcase-word'.
  Plist: event-symbol-element-mask event-symbol-elements modifier-cache

---end-of-GNU-Emacs-output---

I find the tabular format of XEmacs easier to parse.


-- René