From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefixed manual describe-function and api overview Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:35:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="54445"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philippe Vaucher Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 08 05:35:59 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ji8Zp-000E39-Um for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2020 05:35:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56410 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ji8Zp-00024S-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42470) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ji8ZG-0001Xu-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ji8ZG-0002lv-3T; Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ji8ZD-0008A8-P6; Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:35:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Philippe Vaucher on Sun, 7 Jun 2020 14:10:27 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252038 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > It is worth a try. Let's see whether users find that helps them > > find the information they are looking for. > > > > To find out whether users find it helpful, we might want to publish it > > and ask users to try it. > Well it is published, You sent mail about it to emacs-devel. That will inform Emacs developers, but only a tiny fraction of the uers. What I mean by "publish it" is to inform lots of users. > > Here's an idea: make describe-function accept topic names as well as function > > names. When the input is a topic name, it would follow up by doing what > > you've implemented. If the minibuffer prompt explains this feature, > > users might discover it on their own. And it won't require a new command. > I see your point but that'd defeat the purpose of the package for me. > I'd type "string" and have to figure out which one is a function and > which one is a topic. I can't follow you there. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)