From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk
Subject: Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:38:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4p9mgi7v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uabjezmq7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:23:28 +0300")
>> >> Kim, is there a reason not to make bindat-pack and bindat-unpack
>> >> autoloaded?
>>
>> > Only that I envisioned that people would explicitly require bindat
>> > if they need the features it provides.
>>
>> Indeed. It doesn't seem to make much sense to autoload part of it.
> Yes, but can it hurt? We could put comments there explaining the
> reasons, in case at some point in the future doing so for the sake of
> documentation search will not be necessary.
It's not very satisfactory. Maybe we should simply mention the package
in the lispref.
>> Maybe we should begin by improving the C-h p answer.
> I'm for it, but IMHO "C-h p" cannot be a precise tool, because it is
> based on too small amount of info (a few keywords), whereas
> apropos-documentation has much more to play with.
I don't think it "cannot be a precise tool" much more than C-h i cannot
be a precise tool. But I agree that it requires a non-trivial amount
of work. It would be worthwhile, tho.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 14:05 reading/writing binary data in structured form Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-26 14:22 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-26 15:18 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-26 16:43 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-26 22:29 ` Werner LEMBERG
[not found] ` <mailman.10841.1209223213.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-27 1:47 ` Dan Espen
2008-04-26 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-26 22:44 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-27 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-27 7:05 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-04-27 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-27 22:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-04-28 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-28 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-28 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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