From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: usability problem of emacs describe-mode Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:11:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <76fcf833-ad89-44f2-b227-e18295317ca2@p13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235549501 14119 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2009 08:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:11:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 25 09:12:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LcEsw-00025I-Fd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:12:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcErb-0006xb-MB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcErH-0006xO-SU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LcErF-0006xB-Tg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37467 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LcErF-0006x8-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:30457) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LcErF-00012t-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LcErE-00082W-G0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LcEr9-0007ty-IG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:11:03 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:11:03 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:11:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62357 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > I think the major usability problem with describe-mode is the listing > of minor modes. Andreas posted a nice alternative. Here's another: (defun describe-major-mode () "Describe `major-mode'." (interactive) (describe-function major-mode)) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA