From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk
Subject: Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:23:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uabjezmq7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzlreix8g.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:29:15 -0400
>
> >> Kim, is there a reason not to make bindat-pack and bindat-unpack
> >> autoloaded?
>
> > Only that I envisioned that people would explicitly require bindat
> > if they need the features it provides.
>
> Indeed. It doesn't seem to make much sense to autoload part of it.
Yes, but can it hurt? We could put comments there explaining the
reasons, in case at some point in the future doing so for the sake of
documentation search will not be necessary.
> Maybe we should begin by improving the C-h p answer.
I'm for it, but IMHO "C-h p" cannot be a precise tool, because it is
based on too small amount of info (a few keywords), whereas
apropos-documentation has much more to play with.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 14:05 reading/writing binary data in structured form Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-26 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-26 22:44 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-27 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-27 7:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-27 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-27 22:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-04-28 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-28 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-04-28 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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