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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:20:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1BFdNR-0003GL-8h@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w4dfzb0xv58.fsf@nanni.riic.uni-linz.ac.at> (message from Stefan Reichör on Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:51:47 +0200)

    Consider the find-dired example. When asked for dir or args
    I would like to get the whole docstring, because it covers the things
    I need to know.

    I am not sure about the benefit of stripping the information down for
    every argument.

We don't have to do it for every argument.  The feature could be
designed so that there is a way to specify that for a certain argument
it should show you the whole string.

The idea of showing the whole string but highlighting the info for
the specific argument might also be good.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-19 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13  6:26 Improved help from minibuffer prompts Stefan Reichör
2004-04-13  6:57 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-13 10:48   ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-14  1:22     ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14  5:35       ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-14  6:49         ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14 10:04           ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-14 10:39             ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-15 16:44               ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16  6:15                 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-16 10:04                   ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-16 13:12                   ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-14 22:53           ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15  1:23             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-16 18:08               ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14  3:43   ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-04-14 18:02   ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15  5:50   ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-16 18:07     ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 21:55       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-17 19:47         ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-19  7:51           ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-19 11:50             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-29 23:48               ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30  5:32                 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-30  9:07                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-01 17:51                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-01 18:33                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-02 19:52                         ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-02 22:45                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-03 22:20                             ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06  1:08                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-06 14:13                             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-07  1:11                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-09  2:03                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-07  0:29                             ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-30 10:08                 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-30 13:39                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 15:50                     ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-30 22:20                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 15:57                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-30 21:28                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 22:49                         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-01  2:17                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-01 20:23                             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-02  1:52                               ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04  0:32                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 20:07                                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 22:52                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-19 17:32             ` Drew Adams
2004-04-20 20:47               ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-20 23:13                 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-21  6:25                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-19 18:20             ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-04-16 18:07     ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 11:42 ` Matthew Mundell
2004-04-16  6:05   ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-18 21:47   ` Richard Stallman

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