From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: general-purpose.el - a general-forms-resource-utility Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:34:50 +0200 Message-ID: <44AD73EA.9020002@student.lu.se> References: <44ACE1B5.10909@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152218127 30217 80.91.229.2 (6 Jul 2006 20:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Roehler , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 06 22:35:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyaZ8-0005EI-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyaZ7-0001Ca-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyaYw-0001Au-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyaYt-00018M-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyaYt-00018J-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FyaZ7-00022M-7j; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A2E86F001B5712; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:34:55 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56656 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> - display a list of clickable functions or forms the >> way `apropos' does; i.e. M-x `general-resource-utility' >> RET `string-strip' should display several >> string-strip-utilities to examine, insert at point etc. >> >> - allow users to edit the collection via >> copy-and-paste; provide some automated indexing >> afterward >> > > Is there something beyond completion here? > I do not know what OP actually meant, but I think it would be useful to easily have access to general functions you may need somewhere. Completion would be very fine in my opinion. > >> - display related topics as customize does with >> parent groups >> > > There's a C-h subcommand to do that. > > I must have missed something. Is there an hiearchy for functions?