From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: custom type `color' is not enforced Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:47:39 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198219803 24841 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2007 06:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 07:50:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J5bhz-0004o6-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5bhg-0001Ot-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:49:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5bgv-0000CS-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5bgr-0008VP-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:49:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5bgr-0008Uy-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:49:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J5bgn-0004nG-F9; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:48:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBL6mtBm013893; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:48:55 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id lBL3OA8h012058; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:48:55 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-66-79.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3458348441198219655; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:47:35 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85335 Archived-At: > Don't assume that the user knows just which option s?he wants > to describe. `describe-variable' gives you only one way, by > option name, to define a set of candidate options, in order > to pick one to describe. > > I'm not assuming that. Rather, I don't think very many people > would take the trouble to remember that `describe-option-of-type' > exists. Thus, practically speaking it would not be very useful. It needs a binding, yes. Not very many people would have learned or would remember several of the help commands if they were not bound. FWIW, in my code, I use these bindings in `help-map': `o' for `describe-option' (= `describe-variable' with prefix arg) `C-o' for `describe-option-of-type' `c' for `describe-command' (= `describe-function' with prefix arg) (`describe-key-briefly' is `C-c'.)