From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:36:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0cb0bf02-d33e-4998-bfa4-14c8c65dea35@13g2000yql.googlegroups.com> References: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> <1235417304.445796@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235532110 7412 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2009 03:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:21:50 +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 Feb 25 04:23:05 2009 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 1LcAMQ-0001x5-NQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:23:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcAL6-0002hO-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:21:40 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!13g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.226.234.173 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235507779 29896 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2009 20:36:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:36:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 13g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.226.234.173; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167034 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:17:15 -0500 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:62349 Archived-At: On Feb 23, 11:27=C2=A0am, Andreas Politz wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > usability of emacs mode documentation. > > > emacs's describe-mode (Ctrl+h m) is really unusable. > > [...] > > (defun describe-major-mode (&optional buffer) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0"Describe only major-mode." > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(interactive) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0(let (minor-mode-list minor-mode-alist) > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0(describe-mode buffer))) > > -ap hi Andreas, not sure if you agree or disagree with my criticism. Thanks for the code though. I might use it in emacs2010. (may i use it? GPL?) Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84