From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:04:56 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019311588 11523 127.0.0.1 (20 Apr 2002 14:06:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: link@pobox.com, bradym@balestra.org, 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 16yvVT-0002zk-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:06:28 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16yvpL-0007cx-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:26:59 +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 16yvVI-0001cJ-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16yvUM-0001ZS-00 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3KE4uKY008982; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:04:56 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <7263-Sat20Apr2002145929+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:59:29 +0300") Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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:2841 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2841 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: Terje Bless >> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:03:10 +0200 >> >> I've been using XEmacs for programming since the early nineties. I _still_ >> have no clue how to switch between buffers from the keyboard! > > Is this complaint about the documentation or about the functionality? To make people learn the bindings, it could be useful if selecting stuff from menus left a message in the minibuffer explaining the key binding. E.g., selecting something from the Buffers menu could result in a message "You can also use C-x b to switch buffers". (Buffers might not be the best example since selecting a buffer from the menu isn't exactly the same as using C-x b, but I'm sure there are other examples that map better.) I think something similar exists if you type a M-x command which is bound in the current mode?