From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 4bb2741: More fixes of Intro to Emacs Lisp Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:43:06 +0300 Message-ID: <838t77q9et.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180524173803.577.7354@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180524173804.EED6320718@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <6879f5f7-4807-0d97-d5e0-d1c0718d5132@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529671303 24266 195.159.176.226 (22 Jun 2018 12:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 22 14:41:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fWLNi-0006AT-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWLPn-0005hX-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:43:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWLP2-0005hG-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWLOz-0003XH-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fWLOz-0003X9-Jj; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3805 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fWLOz-0002ft-0X; Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:42:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <6879f5f7-4807-0d97-d5e0-d1c0718d5132@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:28:22 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226590 Archived-At: > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:28:22 +0300 > > On 5/24/18 8:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > (If the command doesn't prompt, invoke it with an > > +argument: @kbd{C-u M-.}; @pxref{Interactive Options}.) Emacs will > > +switch buffers and display the source code for the function on your > > +screen@footnote{ > > That reminds me of an old mathematician joke about how one goes about > boiling a pot of water. > > Since we probably agree that the current default is more ergonomic (use > the function at point, unless called with the prefix), maybe suggest > that approach first, in this text? > > Like: "if the name of the function you're interested in is under point, > press M-.. Otherwise, press C-u M-. and type the function's name." I cannot decide which variant is better, so I'd prefer to wait for someone to complain first.