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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Online help and help-for-help improvements
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:08:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877igookke.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myplmgn8.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> (Kim F. Storm's message of "Thu\, 28 Feb 2008 13\:04\:11 +0100")

storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Here is a patch which improves the online help in the
> following ways:
>
> - the output from C-h C-h is much easier to read and use.
>
> - better mnemonics for some common help items:
>
> C-h C-d => DEBUG   (new)
> C-h C-e => extra aka. MORE.STUFF (new)
> C-h C-o => ordering (DISTRIB)   [was C-h C-d]
> C-h C-p => PROBLEMS             [was C-h C-e]
>
> C-h g   => THE-GNU-PROJECT   
>            (illogical on C-h C-p, but C-h C-g is no good)
>
> Code simplified by using new view-help-file function.
>
> Comments?

Looks OK to me, but the renamed functions should be accompanied by
aliases for the old names.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-28 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 12:04 Online help and help-for-help improvements Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 22:49   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:01     ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-28 23:12       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 21:08 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-02-28 23:01   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 23:48     ` Chong Yidong
2008-02-29 12:22       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-01 10:33       ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-02  2:59         ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-03 13:37           ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-03 14:03             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-03 23:40               ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 15:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-04 18:17                   ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:29                     ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-05  0:29                       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 19:40                     ` Reiner Steib
2008-03-05  0:30                       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-04 21:37                     ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-04 21:48                       ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-06  0:09                       ` Kim F. Storm
2008-03-06 15:18                         ` Chong Yidong

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