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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, manuel@ledu-giraud.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:16:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB49770CBE641565E1D6473F6E96499@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v8g77iof.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu,  01 Jun 2023 10:20:16 +0300")

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> What about using the "C-x 4" prefix?  We could define a new prefix map
>> bound to "C-x 4 h", then have all the bindings in *Help* be in the map
>> prefixed by "C-x 4 h".  For example, "C-x 4 h I" will run a command
>> which will produce the same effect as help-goto-lispref-info, using
>> the current *Help* window as its starting point.
>>
>> We could support "C-x 5 h" prefixed key sequences in a similar manner,
>> for people who have Info buffers or *Help* buffers in another frame.
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> 'C-x 4 h' and 'C-x 5 h' are quite mnemonic and convenient to type.
> What I tried to do is to adapt this to windmove to support a window
> in any direction, but in any case they all could use the same
> internal general function.
>
> So this allow to support more commands than the currently limited set of
> scroll-other-window, scroll-other-window-down, recenter-other-window,
> beginning-of-buffer-other-window, end-of-buffer-other-window.

I forgott to type in previous mail:

In general, (I think) that allow to support commands that are available in
selected-window, to be executed in other-window, but does not have access to
commands defined in other-window, and naturally we can't executed commands from
selected-window if they are not supported in other-window. With other words, if
set of commands from selected window is S and set of commands in other-window is
O, than this will work in on the intersect of those commands, S∩O. Perhaps there
is more to it, but I think that is the minimal requirement (the commands has to
work on both buffers).

Potentially it can also result in many bug repports and /r/Emacs threads where
people wonder why it does not work some command Foo in other buffer.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-01  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-30  5:38 Control help- and Info-mode buffers from other buffers Arthur Miller
2023-05-30 12:54 ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-30 13:31   ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-30 15:22     ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-05-30 17:29     ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-31  5:55       ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-31 17:13         ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01  3:16           ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01  6:35             ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01  7:05               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01  7:20                 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01  9:03                   ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01  9:55                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 14:01                       ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01  9:16                   ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2023-06-01  9:58                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 13:45                       ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 16:19                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-02  1:26                           ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02  6:34                             ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-02 15:11                               ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 15:29                               ` Yuri Khan
2023-06-02 16:32                                 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 14:09                                   ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02  7:11                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-02 15:09                               ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02 15:16                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 13:53                                   ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-03 14:04                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 15:06                                       ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-03 15:15                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 14:19                                           ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 14:33                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04  7:52                                     ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 14:04                                       ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 16:50                                         ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-02 16:13                                 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-03 13:49                                   ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-06-04  7:44                                     ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04  8:50                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 13:40                                         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-06-04 13:53                                           ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 14:00                                             ` Drew Adams
2023-06-04 14:20                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 13:38                                       ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2023-06-04  7:48                                   ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01  8:50               ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 10:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-01 11:33                   ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-01 16:39                 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01 19:15                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-02  1:10                   ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-02  6:32                     ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-04 14:41                       ` Arthur Miller
2023-06-04 16:54                         ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-01  6:31           ` Juri Linkov
2023-05-30 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-31  6:38   ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-30 18:04 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-05-31  6:06   ` Arthur Miller
2023-05-31 13:00     ` Drew Adams
2023-05-31 13:27       ` Arthur Miller

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