From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Another input method feature needed Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:05:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wru14onc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <49520.130.55.132.126.1276531995.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <87y6ebo1c3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87aaqr2s2v.fsf@gmail.com> <87mxurmap7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87d3vfwc06.fsf@gmail.com> <87zkyeesjs.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277943086 27569 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 00:11:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:11:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 02:11:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU7NF-0005TW-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:11:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU7NE-00033Q-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44523 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU7N8-00033I-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU7N7-0004Hm-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-03.vtx.ch ([194.38.175.92]:38203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU7N7-0004HK-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (dyn.144-85-133-055.dsl.vtx.ch [144.85.133.55]) by smtp-03.vtx.ch (VTX Services SA) with ESMTP id AF782296CDC; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 02:11:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 36F00660F4; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 02:05:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87zkyeesjs.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:19:45 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:126566 Archived-At: >> Let's not let this fall into oblivion the second time. Any objections >> against Juri including the library into Emacs and continuing integrating >> it/working on it (or the other way round)? If it's in a usable state, it can be installed. If not, then maybe it can be split into smaller steps where each step is in a usable state. > In any case it would be useful to split help functions into two parts: > 1. data collection that returns data structures with help information; > 2. view generation that renders the output according to defined layouts. Feel free to install refactoring patches that do that. Stefan