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: M-x custom: *PLEASE*, someone, have it build an INDEX (as in *info*) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:31:13 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263871953 30305 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2010 03:32:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:32:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 19 04:32:23 2010 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 1NX4pK-0001Vx-GZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:32:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NX4pL-0005yB-FY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:32:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NX4oz-0005xs-1e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:32:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NX4ou-0005xb-MH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:32:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49026 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NX4ou-0005xY-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55077) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NX4ou-0000F8-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NX4op-0001Pe-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:31:51 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:31:51 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:31:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71301 Archived-At: David Combs wrote: > Unlike most everyone else, I find "custom" basically UNUSABLE. > > (Actually, I'd much prefer a super-LONG edit-options -- at least > I could run M-x occur on it, see where things were. > > This custom thing -- I have no idea where things are, how far > down I have to go. > > Maybe if someone could code it to draw one HUGE tree (lying on its > side, of course), but the current scheme doesn't work for me. > > So, an INDEX would help -- each one being a LINK to the thing > it's about. Custom would make the index each time it started up. Why not `M-x apropos-variable' to generate the *Apropos* buffer as a virtual index? Then click on one of the links to display the *Help* buffer for any variable, which has a link to customize the variable. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA