From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: 22 Apr 2002 18:00:53 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020417123512.0398e4c8@san-francisco.beasys.com> <200204201727.g3KHRTg01417@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019466213 31324 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 09:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xemacs-design@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16zZjR-000897-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:03:33 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zZk3-0007o7-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:04:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zZjH-0004jA-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 05:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.214]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zZhi-0004gG-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 05:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.192]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g3M91VV14050; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:01:31 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv2.nec.co.jp (mailgate52.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.191]) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g3M91UU10314; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:01:30 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv2.nec.co.jp (8.11.3/3.7W-MAILSV2-NEC) with ESMTP id g3M90r625171; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:01:25 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g3M90rg08427; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:00:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 2A2923723; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:00:53 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Per Abrahamsen System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 28 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3005 Per Abrahamsen writes: > > Hm. Another approach would be if C-h v and friends groked :link. > > Maybe that is better. Yes, probably. Existing doc strings that > > contains duplicated links in docstring and :link would need to be > > fixed though. > > Yes, it has been on my list of "small projects I really ought to do" > for some time now. I think that's not the best solution for this problem, since there's already enough information to make such a connection automatically in the great majority of cases. > A more controversial solution would be to > > (defalias 'describe-variable 'customize-variable) Yes; that would be very bad. Customization buffers are filled with all sorts of crap that's completely unnecessary when you just want to see a quick description of a variable (which is about 99% of the time for me), which would distract greatly from the actual documentation (not to mention ballooning the size of help buffers to something absurd). -Miles -- I have seen the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo