From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zachary Kline Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:14:19 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87tz6lvud0.fsf@babel.localdomain> References: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235421069 22841 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2009 20:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:31:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 23 21:32:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbhTR-0002Pc-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:32:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbhS6-0004hB-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:30:58 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!fdn.fr!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: OXBjr4T4DwN8IZDp6BlcPg.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:14:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081211-0, 12/11/2008), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:QbA6RVp7wu/0S0Q/kGb1lI1wp6s= sha1:Zv6iCNTaxsXvkbJoZuRocXJWTuQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166992 comp.emacs:97845 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:30:08 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62299 Archived-At: Hello, I think the issue here is one of personal preference. I for one find the mode help not only useful but essential in many instances, being new to the editor. As for technical terminology, it is something that one will eventually pick up with time. I should also mention that the contents of that buffer depend, in large part, on which mode you're currently in. All this being said, I'm conservative and don't feel a need to change something that works in my case. Best, Zack.