From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts Date: 30 Apr 2004 18:49:42 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040430153555.28AE.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040430232000.AEC0.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083365452 15870 80.91.224.253 (30 Apr 2004 22:50:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 01 00:50:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJgqE-0000xD-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 00:50:46 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJgqE-0006Q4-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 00:50:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJgpp-0004hv-Fz for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJgpk-0004fg-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJgpE-0004Un-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJgpD-0004Ui-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE73D209C2; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:49:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6DC9A8C6AE; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:49:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20040430232000.AEC0.LEKTU@mi.madritel.es> Original-Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-1.524, requis 5, BAYES_01 -1.52) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22470 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22470 > So, I'm not sure what benefit would it be (but I'm perhaps > misunderstanding you). Could you please elaborate? Your code assumes that the arglist has been inserted at a particular place in the buffer, which is not necessarily a reliable way to get the info you need. Instead, you could hook into describe-function-1 at the place where the corresponding text is inserted, at which point you know exactly where that text is, without needing any heuristic. Stefan