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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>,
	"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:57:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACMENPCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6jp6v6q.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

> I dunno which way should be the default (though I favor the backward
> compatible way, I guess), but please, add the functionality, because
> it's _useful_ (I'm not talking about newbies, just about my own use;
> probably it's useful to newbies in some form too).
>
> I very often want to peruse the _user interface_ of a package is, and
> tend to do this by using "C-h C-f prefix- ?", see what functions there
> are, then type the name of one to see how it works.  Clearly this gets
> tons of noise from the non-command functions, and so it would be _very_
> useful to have a command-only version of C-h C-f.

This is off-topic, but you might also find `icicle-imenu-command' useful. It
lets you browse among command definitions. It uses the imenu regexp to find
functions, and filters the results with `commandp'. Because of this way of
defining it, it finds only currently defined commands, however, not commands
defined in a file that has not been loaded.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21  2:57 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
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 [this message]
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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