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: Getting more info on a variable in Customize buffers Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:58:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104714396 20566 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 01:06:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 01:06:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 02:06:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClGfy-0002aE-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:06:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClGr6-0001cC-6D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClGqf-0001WF-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1ClGqd-0001Ud-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClGqd-0001TK-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ClGet-0006HG-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1ClGYj-000583-Qv; Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:58:58 -0500 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31712 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31712 1) If I click Customize in the *Help* buffer from `C-h v', I arrive at a Customize buffer for only that variable, where there is no link to the custom group of the variable, so I can't see how it might be related to other variables in the group. It might be that what I really need is a similarly named variable, but I can't browse the group to find it. In fact, I can't even see what custom group the variable belongs to (no group name is indicated). It would be useful for these buffers to include a link to move to the whole group. One complication is that the variable can belong to more than one group. I am sure that complication can be overcome. I don't want to implement this, but if someone else does, it can be installed. 2a) The variable name does not appear as such. Instead, the name is prettified using title-case and replacing dashes with spaces. A variable with a mixed-case name like `Info-enable-edit' is indistiguishable in this format from one that is all lowercase. I have always been uncertain whether this prettifying of names is a good thing. I am still not sure.