From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren't always correct]
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:17:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dnmvnj$afd$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Em0dJ-0002Ns-7u@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> Would someone please DTRT about this, then ack?
>
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> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:58:08 -0800
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> For example, C-h f buffer-list shows this text:
>
> buffer-list is a built-in function in `C source code'.
> (buffer-list &optional frame)
>
> Return a list of all existing live buffers.
> If the optional arg frame is a frame, we return the buffer list
> in the proper order for that frame: the buffers in frame's `buffer-list'
> frame parameter come first, followed by the rest of the buffers.
I think it would be better to say:
the buffers in FRAME's `buffer-list' frame parameter come first,
or:
the buffers in the frame's `buffer-list' frame parameter come first,
or:
the buffers in its `buffer-list' frame parameter come first,
> [back]
>
> The text "buffer-list" in the last sentence is linked to the help for the
> `buffer-list' function, not the `buffer-list' frame parameter. Either there
> should be no link here (if there is no way to show help on the parameter) or
> the link should point to help on the frame parameter.
Since there is no describe-frame-parameter command, and the phrase
"frame paramter" follows the quoted symbol (unlike the phrases listed
in help-xref-symbol-regexp, which precede quoted symbols), we can avoid
hyperlinking such phrases by changing help-make-xrefs in help-mode.el
from:
;; Quoted symbols
(save-excursion
(while (re-search-forward help-xref-symbol-regexp nil t)
(let* ((data (match-string 8))
(sym (intern-soft data)))
(if sym
to:
;; Quoted symbols
(save-excursion
(while (re-search-forward help-xref-symbol-regexp nil t)
(let* ((data (match-string 8))
(sym (intern-soft data)))
(if (and sym
(save-match-data
(not (looking-at "[ \t\n]+frame
parameter"))))
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-13 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 3:15 [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren't always correct] Richard Stallman
2005-12-13 17:17 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-12-13 19:52 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren't alwayscorrect] Drew Adams
2005-12-13 23:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 18:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 20:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 22:48 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren'talwayscorrect] Drew Adams
2005-12-15 1:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-15 2:01 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help bufferaren'talwayscorrect] Drew Adams
2005-12-15 3:16 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren'talwayscorrect] Stefan Monnier
2005-12-15 17:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-15 4:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 15:39 ` bad mailer Subject meddling (was: links in Help buffer aren't always correct) Drew Adams
2005-12-15 18:47 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2005-12-16 5:08 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-16 7:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15 17:08 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: links in Help buffer aren'talwayscorrect] Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-16 18:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
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