From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40915: [PATCH] Make leaving Info-summary more intuitive Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:39:15 +0200 Message-ID: <878sif7bng.fsf@stefankangas.se> References: <83sggo2ik3.fsf@gnu.org> <25e557d9-4b68-470a-96d5-c51552d5fa38@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="6476"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 40915@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 19:42:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTUFI-0001ZX-Ky for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:39:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <25e557d9-4b68-470a-96d5-c51552d5fa38@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:11:26 -0700 (PDT)") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ted.gofardesign.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - debbugs.gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - marxist.se X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: ted.gofardesign.uk: authenticated_id: stefan@marxist.se X-Authenticated-Sender: ted.gofardesign.uk: stefan@marxist.se X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179233 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > For (a), what do you mean by a "general" help > command? The point of Info-summary is to provide > succinct help about Info. I meant that you can have a command which works in any major mode very easily: (defun Info-summary () "Display a brief summary of all Info commands." (interactive) (save-window-excursion (switch-to-buffer "*Help*") (setq buffer-read-only nil) (erase-buffer) - (insert (documentation 'Info-mode)) + (insert (documentation major-mode)) (help-mode) (goto-char (point-min)) (let (ch flag) (while (progn (setq flag (not (pos-visible-in-window-p (point-max)))) (message (if flag "Type Space to see more" "Type Space to return to Info")) (if (not (eq ?\s (setq ch (read-event)))) (progn (push ch unread-command-events) nil) flag)) (scroll-up))) (bury-buffer "*Help*"))) Best regards, Stefan Kangas