From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: `i' in Info: get combo index tailored to input Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:29:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <22ADB119166B4CC6BCC4511D5B796204@us.oracle.com><87my7uhbkn.fsf@mail.jurta.org><44BD12080D3F459590B68D74322A5244@us.oracle.com><874ou0nihh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246231772 6550 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2009 23:29:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Drew Adams'" , "'Juri Linkov'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 01:29:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ML3oK-0002WP-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:29:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50871 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ML3oJ-0004Xi-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ML3oF-0004Xd-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:29:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ML3oA-0004XD-4o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:29:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59431 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ML3oA-0004XA-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:47067) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ML3o9-0004fC-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n5SNUKSU000570 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:30:22 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt007.oracle.com (abhmt007.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n5SNUhWe001167; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:30:43 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.164.86) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:29:08 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Acn4OZj4Dbq/SvFZT9WvoAVq9/0QJAADLGIwAABqBiA= X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: abhmt007.oracle.com [141.146.116.16] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4A47FCC4.0197:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:111796 Archived-At: > -----Original Message----- > From: emacs-devel-bounces+drew.adams=oracle.com@gnu.org > [mailto:emacs-devel-bounces+drew.adams=oracle.com@gnu.org] On > Behalf Of Drew Adams > Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:17 PM > To: 'Juri Linkov' > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Subject: RE: `i' in Info: get combo index tailored to input > > > > How about binding it to `C-u i', as a variant of the normal > > > index search? Assuming it gets added, that is... Thx. > > > > In http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/79561 you > > suggested to bind it to `I'. I like your initial > > suggestion for the same reasons you described: > > > > 1. It would be useful to have an Info command, say bound to > > `I', that would do for index lookup what `L' (Info-history) > > does for chronological navigation. You would type a regexp, > > and it would show you a buffer similar to the `Recently > > Visited Nodes' buffer of `L'. > > Yes, fine by me. On the other hand, it might be good to mention `I' on the doc string of `i', and `L' on the doc string of `l' and `r'. Otherwise, users are less likely to discover these closely related commands. (That's an advantage that C-u has, otherwise: users can find out about it when they do C-h k i.)