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From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
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Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode
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Xah Lee wrote:
> On Feb 23, 11:27 am, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> 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)
>>    "Describe only major-mode."
>>    (interactive)
>>    (let (minor-mode-list minor-mode-alist)
>>      (describe-mode buffer)))
>>
>> -ap
> 
> hi Andreas,
> 
> not sure if you agree or disagree with my criticism.

My opinion on this matter is this :
Problem solved, case closed.
> 
> Thanks for the code though. I might use it in emacs2010. (may i use
> it? GPL?)
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
> ☄