From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: dalanicolai@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search multiple Info-buffers at once with Info-occur function
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 15:15:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8ct68hw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czt94uc3.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Augusto Stoffel on Sat, 29 May 2021 14:07:08 +0200)
> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 14:07:08 +0200
>
> FWIW, I would find it useful if `Info-index` could be called from any
> buffer, say to search the Elisp manual if I'm on a emacs-lisp-mode
> buffer.
In this use case, how will Info-index know which manual to search?
> In fact, it might be handy to associate a list of Info nodes,
> rather than a single node, to a buffer
Sorry, I don't understand: what buffer would you like to associate
with which Info nodes?
> `Info-index` won't find a needle in a haysack, but one advantage over
> `info-apropos` is the possibility to do incremental filtering out of the
> box, with any of the incremental completion frameworks.
Are you sure the facilities in info-look.el aren't a better starting
point (or maybe even a solution) for the problems you have in mind?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-29 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 22:17 Search multiple Info-buffers at once with Info-occur function dalanicolai
2021-05-23 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 8:39 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-23 8:56 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-23 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-24 8:37 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-24 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 14:12 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-25 14:24 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-29 12:07 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-29 13:07 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 13:48 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-29 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-29 12:17 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-29 12:37 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-23 9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-23 20:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-24 8:46 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-24 17:55 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-25 12:29 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-25 13:58 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-25 14:33 ` dalanicolai
2021-05-23 15:42 ` Measuring execution time of a function Stefan Monnier
2021-05-24 8:35 ` dalanicolai
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