From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info tutorial is out of date Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153435316 11399 80.91.229.2 (20 Jul 2006 22:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 00:41:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3hDK-0003R8-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:41:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3hDJ-0006An-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3hCy-00066A-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3hCy-00065k-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3hCx-00065d-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G3hDF-0004lO-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G3hCx-0002aQ-7A; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:27 -0400 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57401 Archived-At: Interesting (and I do the same). Nothing wrong with this use pattern, but I wonder if a command that tells you where are (in the manual hierarchy) wouldn't be useful. It could be bound, for example, to `.' (a la `pwd'). (Yes, I know that `.' is currently a synonym for `b'.) It could display a "breadcrumbs" message such as this: (emacs) Top > Minibuffer > Completion > Completion Commands. It does sound useful. In theory, this question does not always have a well-defined answer, since Info files need not be a tree structure. But in practice they all are, so there is a well-defined answer. So the command would be useful, but it needs to cope in some fashion with the weird cases. If someone wants to implement this and contribute it, it will be welcome.