From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
Date: 14 Apr 2004 10:22:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4qrnz72u.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w4d65c4gnmb.fsf@nanni.riic.uni-linz.ac.at>
Stefan Reichör <xsteve@riic.at> writes:
> > How about having the completion-help display code[*] do it:
> > when showing completions, if there's only a single unique completion,
> > show instead the help buffer.
>
> I don't think, one can use '?' for the example above.
> Or do I miss something here?
Ah... you're right! I was completely confused about what you're
suggesting.
You were describing a way of getting help _after_ a command has been
started, whereas what I described is a way of getting help _before_
doing so.
I guess both could be useful, but to address your suggestion
specifically:
It seems like a good idea to me; the main question I have is whether
having F1 (or C-h) act differently in the minibuffer is natural for most
users or not. As the normal help-menu binding for those keys already
acts weirdly in the minibuffer -- it doesn't display the help prompt --
maybe that suggests that it's unusual to use them in the minibuffer.
-Miles
--
[|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that
will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth?
[iddt] nurg, that's the goal
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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 [this message]
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
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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