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[76.168.148.233]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id az13-20020a17090b028d00b002964f55de20sm2674635pjb.30.2024.02.06.20.26.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:26:08 -0800 (PST) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <86mssdymon.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:279534 Archived-At: On 2/6/2024 7:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 16:02:32 -0800 >> From: Jim Porter >> >> Currently, the Eshell manual lists all the built-in commands in one >> section, which can make it hard to find the commands related to the >> topic you care about. Here's a patch to split this into subsections of >> various (loosely-defined) topics. > > If people look for commands by using 'i' (Info-index), then finding > them in a single long section will be as easy as doing that in several > shorter ones. The use-case I was imagining for this was a person thinking, "What commands does Eshell have for working with [say] directories?" Since those were previously interspersed throughout the full command list, it would take a fair bit of skimming past irrelevant commands to find the directory-related ones. For looking up a specific command though, I agree that the current manual is fine.