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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:46:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prza8snb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DHEEKFAFJEFOJHLCFPFDGENICBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 12\:06\:42 -0700")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Attached is a patch for help-fns.el. It modifies `describe-function' and
> `describe-variable', so that a prefix arg means that candidates are commands
> and user options, respectively. So `C-u C-h f' shows and accepts only
> commands as completion candidates, and `C-u C-h v' shows and accepts only
> user options for completion.

Nice.

I've often wanted this functionality (not quite enough to overcome my
laziness I guess), and this seems like a good and seamless way to fit it
into the existing handy bindings.

Thanks,

-Miles

-- 
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-20  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19 19:06 help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands Drew Adams
2007-10-20  1:46 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2007-10-20 14:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-20 16:59   ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21  2:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21  2:22       ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21  2:46       ` Miles Bader
2007-10-21  2:57         ` Drew Adams
2007-10-21 16:26         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21  5:25       ` William Xu
2007-10-21  6:02         ` Drew Adams
2007-10-22  9:00         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-22  9:15           ` William Xu
2007-10-21 16:26     ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21 17:30       ` Drew Adams
2007-10-23  7:12         ` Richard Stallman

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