From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:27:24 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1235417304.445796@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235418058 11566 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2009 19:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:40:58 +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 Feb 23 20:42:13 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 1Lbggt-0000bz-L1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:42:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbgfZ-0001e1-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:40:49 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1235417385 28798 143.93.54.11 (23 Feb 2009 19:29:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:29:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-213-020.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166993 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:62297 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > usability of emacs mode documentation. > > emacs's describe-mode (Ctrl+h m) is really unusable. [...] (defun describe-major-mode (&optional buffer) "Describe only major-mode." (interactive) (let (minor-mode-list minor-mode-alist) (describe-mode buffer))) -ap