From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: |PATCH| describe-minor-mode and describe-minor-mode-from-indicator Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:49:18 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030118.163543.59461489.jet@gyve.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043024246 27154 80.91.224.249 (20 Jan 2003 00:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18aQFg-00073n-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:57:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18aQQK-0006kC-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:08:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aQC3-0005JP-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:53:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aQ8E-0003G3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:49:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aQ7v-0002pd-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aQ7q-0002ho-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:49:18 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18aQ7q-0006LW-00; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:49:18 -0500 Original-To: Masatake YAMATO In-reply-to: <20030118.163543.59461489.jet@gyve.org> (message from Masatake YAMATO on Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:35:43 +0900 (JST)) Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10882 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10882 1. M-x describe-minor-mode The user of describe-minor-mode can give its argument with completion. The completion table is built from the name of minor modes activated on the current buffer. 2. M-x describe-minor-mode-from-indicator Almost the same as describe-minor-mode but the user can pass an indicator instead of minor mode name to get help. I could not implment completion. (You will be not satisfied with "without completion".) This is a very useful feature. It could be more useful if the user could click on a minor mode name in the mode line and get a description of it. This could work for mahor modes too. Right now only mouse-3 is used on this part of the mode line. (It is not hard to call completing-read--did you find this difficult?).