From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Let `C-h i' open all Info buffers that were quit? 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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:57763 Archived-At: Post-release feature request - You can use `M-n' (`clone-buffer') in Info, to have more than one Info buffer open. I don't know if other people use Info this way very much, using different parts of Info in different buffers, but I do. Very handy. `q' in Info quits it and remembers where you were, so that the next time you use `C-h i', you reenter where you left off. Also very handy. If you quit Info and reenter, apparently only the first Info buffer is reentered (displayed) - the clones are not. The clone Info buffers are still available, so you can get to them, e.g., via `C-x C-b', but `C-h i' doesn't automatically display them. If only one of the Info buffers is displayed by `C-h i', I'm not sure that the original one is the best choice; perhaps the last one that you quit would be a better choice. Anyway, my real suggestion here is this: It would be handy if `C-h i' opened (displayed) *all* of the Info buffers. Even users who know about `q' followed by `C-h i' might not know that all of their Info buffers are still available - that is, they might not think to use `C-x b' to access them. I think letting `C-h i' open all of them at once would be convenient. If we implemented this feature, then it would also be good to have another way of quitting Info, besides `q', which would be more definitive - the equivalent of `C-x k', for instance - perhaps `x' ("exit") would be a good binding for it. That way, if you're really through with an Info buffer, you just kill it, so it won't be reopened later. That would be analogous to closing a Web browser window instead of iconifying it. I imagine that there will usually only be relatively few Info buffers at any time, so I don't think it would be a nuisance for anyone if `C-h i' displayed all of them. If people disagree, then we might consider having a user option to express this preference (e.g. open all, open last, or open first). If the prefix arg for `C-h i' were not already used for something else, I would have suggested that it could be used to say whether you wanted to open all Info buffers or only one. Another possibility, which I would not like much, would be to have `C-h i' ask you which Info buffers you want to display. To me, that would be a nuisance. WDOT?