From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: Let `C-h i' open all Info buffers that were quit?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:01:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBCEMMDDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
Post-release feature request -
You can use `M-n' (`clone-buffer') in Info, to have more than one Info
buffer open. I don't know if other people use Info this way very much, using
different parts of Info in different buffers, but I do. Very handy.
`q' in Info quits it and remembers where you were, so that the next time you
use `C-h i', you reenter where you left off. Also very handy.
If you quit Info and reenter, apparently only the first Info buffer is
reentered (displayed) - the clones are not. The clone Info buffers are still
available, so you can get to them, e.g., via `C-x C-b', but `C-h i' doesn't
automatically display them.
If only one of the Info buffers is displayed by `C-h i', I'm not sure that
the original one is the best choice; perhaps the last one that you quit
would be a better choice.
Anyway, my real suggestion here is this: It would be handy if `C-h i' opened
(displayed) *all* of the Info buffers.
Even users who know about `q' followed by `C-h i' might not know that all of
their Info buffers are still available - that is, they might not think to
use `C-x b' to access them. I think letting `C-h i' open all of them at once
would be convenient.
If we implemented this feature, then it would also be good to have another
way of quitting Info, besides `q', which would be more definitive - the
equivalent of `C-x k', for instance - perhaps `x' ("exit") would be a good
binding for it. That way, if you're really through with an Info buffer, you
just kill it, so it won't be reopened later. That would be analogous to
closing a Web browser window instead of iconifying it.
I imagine that there will usually only be relatively few Info buffers at any
time, so I don't think it would be a nuisance for anyone if `C-h i'
displayed all of them. If people disagree, then we might consider having a
user option to express this preference (e.g. open all, open last, or open
first).
If the prefix arg for `C-h i' were not already used for something else, I
would have suggested that it could be used to say whether you wanted to open
all Info buffers or only one.
Another possibility, which I would not like much, would be to have `C-h i'
ask you which Info buffers you want to display. To me, that would be a
nuisance.
WDOT?
next reply other threads:[~2006-07-29 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-29 1:01 Drew Adams [this message]
2006-07-29 9:02 ` Let `C-h i' open all Info buffers that were quit? Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-29 14:42 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-29 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 15:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-07-31 15:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-05 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 19:54 ` Mathias Dahl
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