From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: headings for texinfo-mode using outline-minor-mode Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 10:20:36 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="709"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 13 09:26:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lh5jl-000Ada-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 May 2021 09:26:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lh5jk-0006rA-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 May 2021 03:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lh5iw-0006qm-JU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2021 03:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:33845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lh5it-0007x0-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 May 2021 03:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.82.130.112]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ABF25.00000000609CD467.00006AE8; Thu, 13 May 2021 00:25:27 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Dimech , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129738 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2021-05-13 05:50]: > > There are many modes, various macros, functions. Many modes do not > > have its outline structure. Emacs Lisp mode does not have "outline" > > defined, we can just virtualize it and think how to create > > outline. Its structure would greatly depend of the style, and comments > > definition, for example to start writing (defun on the beginning of > > the line. Each user can have different comment definition. > > Being able to have different comment definition for headings would be very valuable. > I also like the idea that headings become different than code. This is because, you > could collapse code independently of headers. Currently code structures are being > used as headers, a strategy which is faulty from my point of view. Hmm... Maybe strategy is not best hypothetically, but practically it is useful to collapse code structures: I can get the easy overview or quick index of functions and faster do the movements. Also copy and paste is easier. Only "(" in the first column is collaped. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/