From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:35:16 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87ek5nqepv.fsf@jurta.org> References: <89DEE8B2-EA6A-4347-A9AB-D1B99C58E725@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131738389 27536 80.91.229.2 (11 Nov 2005 19:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 11 20:46:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaeqN-0002ov-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:45:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaeqN-0007z5-4L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eaepe-0007id-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eaepd-0007i9-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eaepd-0007i1-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Eaepd-00060G-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-42-115-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.42.115]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56D71E81; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:45:19 +0200 (EET) Original-To: David Reitter In-Reply-To: <89DEE8B2-EA6A-4347-A9AB-D1B99C58E725@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:29:35 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45768 Archived-At: > describe-bindings separates the different groups with ^L even though > the text that is output is intended to be human-readable. > > Isn't there a nicer way the groups can be separated? I use (aset standard-display-table ?\f (vconcat (make-vector 64 ?-) "^L")) to display the page delimiter as a horizontal line, and this is very helpful not only in the *Help* buffer, but in other places too, including source code buffers. > Couldn't there be a list of all groups in the beginning, with links > going to the bindings belonging to the group? Like in the *Help* buffer created by `C-h m'? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/