From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com>
Cc: tomas@tuxteam.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [ELPA] New package: transient
Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a3ec156-8579-45f5-9e23-7491ad6c575e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83sggiu2p9.fsf@gnu.org>>
> When looking for a function
> whose name you don't know, the first place to look is in the ELisp
> manual. Thus, for finding functions that deal with alists, the first
> thing to try is "i alist RET" in the ELisp manual. Here "alist" is
> not a part of a function's name, it's a topic which you are looking
> for. That is much more efficient than the sequence you described
> above, because we take special care of having meaningful topics in the
> indices of the manual, precisely to help in such situations. (And my
> advice is to always have the ELisp manual shown in some frame on your
> display, so that you don't even need to type "C-h i" etc. to get to
> it.)
I agree with Eli about this. ` i' in a manual is
your friend.
However, that's usable only for functions etc. in
the vanilla code distributed with Emacs. Maybe
that's all Philippe is interested in this case;
maybe not.
If a user wants a function that acts on or returns
an alist, and wants to include functions that are
not part of vanilla Emacs, then the interactive
help, not the manuals, are the answer.
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2020-05-03 17:43 ` João Távora
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