From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ok, I have had it. A proposal for wizards. Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:52:03 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073189241 19952 80.91.224.253 (4 Jan 2004 04:07:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 04:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 04 05:07:16 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AczXo-0000CA-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 05:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AczXo-0002La-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 05:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ad0Ri-0003cW-7Z for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ad0LK-0008Dn-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ad0Ki-0007uk-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:58:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ad0Ki-0007uf-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AczJ5-0004tn-IF; Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:52:03 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 02 Jan 2004 04:28:42 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18980 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18980 This proposal sounds vaguely similar to C-h p. With C-h p you can look at a category and then browse the packages in it. C-h p doesn't have all the features that you propose. It doesn't have a way to mark packages as "seen" or a way to go to their customization. Perhaps someone could add those features to it. Currently C-h p uses the Commentary section of the package; more packages have that than have Info documentation. But one could add a button to view the Info documentation when there is some.