From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: locate-with-filter Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200603160048.k2G0msu23696@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200603170221.k2H2L1H14401@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <17435.52238.927514.585806@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200603181716.k2IHGpN17847@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <17436.56026.490667.58771@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200603190455.k2J4tEK25830@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200603200512.k2K5CFN12390@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142902946 6518 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2006 01:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 21 02:02:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLVGN-0001W7-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:02:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLVGQ-0007Q8-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FLVG8-0007PF-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FLVG7-0007O9-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLVG7-0007O6-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FLVG6-0007Ui-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FLVG6-000271-AC; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:02:02 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200603200512.k2K5CFN12390@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:12:15 -0600 (CST)) 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:51920 Archived-At: While grepping, I noticed problems with `list-faces-display' and `list-character-sets'. These say: "Use or M-x help-follow" in their introductory text, even though `M-x help-follow' is bound to RET in these buffers. How about making them use help-follow-symbol instead of help-follow? Wouldn't that make them work right? It might actually be good to make `M-x help-follow' work correctly on references again, by restoring part of the old `help-follow-mouse' and `help-follow' code. This would allow binding them to other keys than mouse-{1,2} or RET. The patch to help-mode.el below does that. It entirely keeps the new behavior. The only difference is that `M-x help-follow' would once again work on cross references and that it could be rebound. I do not understand this proposal at all. help-follow now does exactly the right thing for help buffers: it has a useful doc string but it always gets an error. I don't see why we should change that. If some other mode wants a different command, make a different command for it. So why not use help-follow-symbol?