From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-like Emacs CLI, and my Usenet behaviour Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:59:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eh9qpznc.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377093586 27936 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2013 13:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:59:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 21 15:59:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VC8wq-0005qv-EG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VC8wq-0006m2-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:59:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VC8wZ-0006lt-67 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VC8wR-0003fJ-Rl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VC8wR-0003eq-Lj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VC8wP-0005CO-Uu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com ([206.248.179.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:59:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-248-179-83.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UgyV7d1AaRk82xtAll7jd776d6k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93027 Archived-At: > man emacs RET vs > M-x man RET emacs RET I largely agree. There's also M-: (man "emacs") RET You could easily make the surrounding parentheses implicit (or pre-inserted), so that would be M-: man "emacs" RET So the main remaining problem is the quotes. After all, for other functions, you'd want M-: describe-function 'car RET -- Stefan