From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit? Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:59:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="167678"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 10 15:03:55 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hlCGJ-000hV5-G6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:03:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60904 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlCGI-0007WY-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41245) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hlCCJ-0007Vd-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlCCH-0006wy-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:42432 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hlCCG-0006mx-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:59:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hlCCB-000cFk-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:59:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:m/s+S54AP/fidPUWdN8LPfon20s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238500 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Howard Melman writes: > >> Can I recommend looking at helpful.el >> https://melpa.org/#/helpful > > That looks nice, but a bit beyond what I think we're aiming for here. > It's also a bit on the chatty side for my tastes... Fair enough. I think its "'View in manual" button could be useful to general (and new) users. If there's a Technical Details button hiding some things, perhaps some of it could be useful (aliases, symbol properties). -- Howard