From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emms help Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:08:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87wt1vao4o.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87vehldjxb.fsf@gmail.com> <1172801099.929689.71570@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <87k5y0guzb.fsf@gmail.com> <87odnbv0mb.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87tzx3m3zg.fsf@gmail.com> <87y7meuzcn.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87k5xxwl81.fsf@gmail.com> <87hct07cir.fsf@truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173098442 16155 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2007 12:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 13:40:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HOCUT-00009z-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOCUS-0000zj-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: individual.net ArHMNbWjAuXjZHKRziCnIQMblEPHqjV4QcnTp66+BaEEEuNOuk X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KkNENdePxCh/+ploEzxD+AvZ5iM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146072 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41676 Archived-At: Jay Belanger writes: > Hadron writes: > ... >> Yup. In emacs world, people sometimes forget the little guy and the fact >> that not everyone has the time or patience to read a whole lisp manual >> to do something as mundane as expect a function called "emms-browser" to >> actually "browse" the top level of a directory tree. > > Directories aren't the only things that are browsed; in this case a > cache is browsed. Reading the whole info file for emms isn't > necessary; the "Basic commands" page should get you started listening > to music. That page contains plenty of "emms-play-..." commands. > But it wouldn't be a bad idea (in my opinion) if when emms tries to > browse an empty cache a short help screen popped up; something like > Welcome to EMMS. > The emms cache, which contains the songs that emms can browse, is > currently empty. To populate it, you may wish to use one of the > following commands: > M-x emms-add-directory-tree: Add all music files contained in a > directory or its subdirectories. This just returns that there are no songs in the top level - it seems to ignore the "tree" bit ... > M-x emms-add-directory: Add all music files contained in a directory. > M-x emms-add-file: Add a single music file. > etc." > > Jay --