From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Cc: 46979@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2exr4hk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1im61odcr.fsf@yahoo.es> (message from Daniel Martín on Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:48:52 +0100)
> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> Cc: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>,
> 46979@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:48:52 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >
> > Our solution to this is "C-h S". Did you try it? You can extend its
> > database if the default lacks something you need.
>
> C-h S only searches Info pages. I think this feature request is more
> about improving the default that M-x man offers, to consider more things
> than just the text around point.
That'd be a tough sell to a GNU project, since the GNU project wants
to deprecate the man pages. (And please don't use "Info pages" when
you are talking about Info manuals: those manuals are not just
collections of random unrelated "pages".)
And besides, which important packages don't have Info manuals?
> I can see its usefulness, as a lot of Unix tools provide special man
> pages for its configuration files. Another potential use case is a user
> visiting a .gitconfig file, where M-x man could suggest "git-config(1)"
> by default. Similarly for .gitattributes and "gitattributes(5)".
Git has an Info manual, even though many people don't know and don't
use it.
> As it's almost impossible to have all that knowledge in Emacs core, I
> see it as a new extensibilty point for users. What are the downsides
> you see in the local variable approach?
The need to add local variables to files is in itself a downside.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-08 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-06 23:18 bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-07 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-07 14:09 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-08 11:17 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-08 13:46 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-08 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 14:48 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-08 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 15:51 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-08 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 17:06 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-08 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-09 14:24 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-09 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-09 17:16 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-03-08 15:48 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-08 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-08 19:01 ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-03-08 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-08 21:55 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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