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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Heuristics for: is a major-mode a "programming language" mode?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:22:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv62y6k301.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 084e458d-2de1-4377-9744-1af0044d7529@i4g2000prf.googlegroups.com

>> The "info doc" part already exists: it's bound to C-h S.
>> It should be easy to make it able to use browse-url instead of Info.
> haven't used this before. When i tried to do that in perl or python
> mode, the mini-buffer seems to try to search the info doc but couldn't
> find it....
> am wondering to what extent it is currently being used in practice.
> Does anyone reading here use this daily?

I don't use it daily, but it's worked when I used it.
Of course, if you don't have the Info docs, it won't work (and that
failure mode may not be very clean), but otherwise it should.  If not,
please M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-15  9:28 Heuristics for: is a major-mode a "programming language" mode? Ilya Zakharevich
2010-09-15 13:12 ` Tim X
2010-09-15 14:27   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-15 14:43 ` Xah Lee
2010-09-15 15:08   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-15 15:32     ` Xah Lee
2010-09-15 23:22       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-09-16 23:43     ` Ilya Zakharevich
2010-09-17  9:50       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 23:40   ` Ilya Zakharevich

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