From: "Stefan Reichör" <xsteve@riic.at>
Subject: Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:48:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w4d65c4gnmb.fsf@nanni.riic.uni-linz.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoad1gnz49.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (Miles Bader's message of "13 Apr 2004 15:57:58 +0900")
Hi Miles!
> Stefan Reichör <xsteve@riic.at> writes:
>> Now you can hit f1 when a minibuffer prompt is displayed and you get
>> the function's docstring.
>
> It's kind of a neat idea, but F1 doesn't seem like a great
> key-binding to me...
Yes, I am not sure about that also. But the f1 and the C-h bindings
point to the same keymaps AFAIK.
I think it is important to make the help easy accessible.
E.g.:
M-x find-dired <RET> gives:
Run find in directory: ~/
Hitting f1 (with my patch) gives:
Help for find-dired:
Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
The command run (after changing into DIR) is
find . \( ARGS \) -ls
except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
as the final argument.
> How about having the completion-help display code[*] do it:
> when showing completions, if there's only a single unique completion,
> show instead the help buffer.
>
> That way, you could either hit `?' after typing the command, or e.g. hit
> TAB a few times -- once to complete the command, and another time to
> display help.
>
I don't think, one can use '?' for the example above.
Or do I miss something here?
> [*] Probably not the generic completion-help code, but some specialized
> version used when completing functions/commands -- though perhaps
> the option of doing something special for completion-help-with-only-
> one-completion could be made a general feature for users of completion.
>
> F1 currently does normal help without a prompt in the minibuffer, which
> is a bit awkward; maybe it should just do the same thing as `?' in the
> minibuffer -- which combined with the above technique, would actually
> make it work the same as your suggestion... :-]
It would be nice to have a functionality like the one I suggested to
be built into emacs.
Stefan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-13 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 6:26 Improved help from minibuffer prompts Stefan Reichör
2004-04-13 6:57 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-13 10:48 ` Stefan Reichör [this message]
2004-04-14 1:22 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14 5:35 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-14 6:49 ` Miles Bader
2004-04-14 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-14 10:39 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-15 16:44 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 6:15 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-16 10:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-16 13:12 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-04-14 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 1:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-16 18:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 3:43 ` Masatake YAMATO
2004-04-14 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-14 18:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 5:50 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-16 18:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 21:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-17 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-19 7:51 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-19 11:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-29 23:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 5:32 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-30 9:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-01 17:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-01 18:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-02 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-02 22:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-03 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06 1:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-06 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-07 1:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-09 2:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-07 0:29 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-30 10:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-30 13:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 15:50 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-30 22:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-30 21:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-30 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-01 2:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-01 20:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-02 1:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 0:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 22:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-04-19 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-20 20:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-20 23:13 ` Drew Adams
2004-04-21 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-19 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-16 18:07 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-15 11:42 ` Matthew Mundell
2004-04-16 6:05 ` Stefan Reichör
2004-04-18 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
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