From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x custom: *PLEASE*, someone, have it build an INDEX (as in *info*) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264815779 24839 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2010 01:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:42:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 02:42:56 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nb2M8-0005Lt-CQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:42:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nb2M8-000568-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:42:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1264812505 6373 166.84.1.1 (30 Jan 2010 00:48:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:48:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176502 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:71573 Archived-At: In article , Kevin Rodgers wrote: >David Combs wrote: >> Unlike most everyone else, I find "custom" basically UNUSABLE. >> >> (Actually, I'd much prefer a super-LONG edit-options -- at least >> I could run M-x occur on it, see where things were. >> >> This custom thing -- I have no idea where things are, how far >> down I have to go. >> >> Maybe if someone could code it to draw one HUGE tree (lying on its >> side, of course), but the current scheme doesn't work for me. >> >> So, an INDEX would help -- each one being a LINK to the thing >> it's about. Custom would make the index each time it started up. > >Why not `M-x apropos-variable' to generate the *Apropos* buffer as a >virtual index? Then click on one of the links to display the *Help* >buffer for any variable, which has a link to customize the variable. > >-- >Kevin Rodgers >Denver, Colorado, USA > > > You mean with a regexp like "."? To get EVERYTHING? (everything that emacs knows about, anyway, at that time I guess that custom works the same way -- if a .el file hasn't yet been read in, emacs won't know any of its variables? Or is that just plain wrong. Isn't there something that is predefined, and if referenced, it's then read in? Or is that just for defuns? Or not even emacs-lisp?) David