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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>, 2473@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2473: usability issues on emacs's describe-mode
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 03:50:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rs9sqdz.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtz6hdyil.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:15:28 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> OTOH, I agree that many of the above modes shouldn't be there.
> More specifically, I think that the above list should only list
> buffer-specific information, i.e. only minor modes which are
> buffer-local.
>
> The global minor modes could still be present in the *Help* buffer, but
> then only at the very end, after the major mode and after the
> buffer-local minor modes.

I've now done something along these lines in Emacs 29.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-13  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25 19:40 bug#2473: usability issues on emacs's describe-mode xah lee
2009-02-26 15:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-13  1:50   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2009-02-27 10:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-27 11:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-27 11:31     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-27 15:19       ` Drew Adams
2009-02-27 23:33     ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-27 23:56       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-02-27 23:58       ` Drew Adams
2009-02-28  4:34       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-28  9:12         ` xah lee
2009-02-28 10:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-28 11:05           ` Lennart Borgman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-01 11:25 Xavier Maillard

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