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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "William Xu" <william.xwl@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:02:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACOEOACDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wsthghu7.fsf@gmail.com>

> I like Drew's idea. But if i have to C-u everytime to see all
> functions/variables, then it would be a great pain writing elisps..  
> 
> On the contrary, C-u is not friendly to newbies. So maybe a better
> solution is to add/redefine two new bindings, `C-h c' and `C-h o' for
> commands and options, respectively. [Currently `C-h c' is binded to
> describe-key-briefly, which i find myself nearly never use..]

I think that's exactly what I suggested. Maybe we just agree?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-21  6:02 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
2007-10-21 16:26         ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-21  5:25       ` William Xu
2007-10-21  6:02         ` Drew Adams [this message]
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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