From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:12:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20080426.160513.247304034.wl@gnu.org> <20080427.004457.142920613.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209266005 24689 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2008 03:13:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 27 05:14:01 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1JpxKy-0006EN-NM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:14:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JpxKI-0005qV-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JpxKC-0005mJ-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JpxKB-0005j4-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52525 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JpxKB-0005is-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il ([84.95.2.1]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JpxK7-00053q-Bn; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.217]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0JZY001PXS8W5T90@i-mtaout1.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:26:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20080427.004457.142920613.wl@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:95998 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:44:57 +0200 (CEST) > From: Werner LEMBERG > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > BTW, it's quite hard to find that package IMHO within Emacs; the only > sensible way which comes to my mind is using `C-h p', going to section > `data'. However, the files mentioned in this section are unsorted > (which I consider a bad thing -- is this a bug?), and there are many > items which are rather unneeded by Joe User (like most of the > url-xxx.el files). > > Is there a better way? Neither `apropos' nor the manual index gives a > sensible result which means that I've basically exhausted the > suggested searching possibilities as given in the `Help' section of > the Emacs info manual. Maybe try `apropos-documentation'.