From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:50:09 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020417123512.0398e4c8@san-francisco.beasys.com> <200204201727.g3KHRTg01417@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019465486 30180 127.0.0.1 (22 Apr 2002 08:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 16zZXi-0007qf-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:51:26 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16zZYK-0007UR-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:52:04 +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 16zZXV-0003qL-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk ([130.225.40.227]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16zZWW-0003la-00 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 04:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from zuse.dina.kvl.dk (zuse.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.245]) by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id KAA01994; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:50:11 +0200 Original-Received: (from abraham@localhost) by zuse.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id KAA21639; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:50:10 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: zuse.dina.kvl.dk: abraham set sender to abraham@dina.kvl.dk using -f Original-To: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:21:57 +0200") Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) 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:3004 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3004 Simon Josefsson writes: > Hm. Another approach would be if C-h v and friends groked :link. > Maybe that is better. Yes, probably. Existing doc strings that > contains duplicated links in docstring and :link would need to be > fixed though. Yes, it has been on my list of "small projects I really ought to do" for some time now. A more controversial solution would be to (defalias 'describe-variable 'customize-variable)