From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Search multiple Info-buffers at once with Info-occur function Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 10:14:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83cztij5ky.fsf@gnu.org> <835yz9kd6q.fsf@gnu.org> <5C87AF42-3A48-42B2-93C8-9C7421CB2EA4@gnu.org> <87czt94uc3.fsf@gmail.com> <83o8ct68hw.fsf@gnu.org> <878s3x4rju.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34655"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , dalanicolai@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Augusto Stoffel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 16:15:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1lmzkR-0008od-VN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 May 2021 16:15:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41236 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lmzkR-0000aB-1q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 May 2021 10:15:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lmzjd-000833-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2021 10:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:23640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lmzjb-0003AZ-6m; Sat, 29 May 2021 10:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C4DC18066C; Sat, 29 May 2021 10:14:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 60A8C804FD; Sat, 29 May 2021 10:14:36 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1622297676; bh=DqmQhOtTnI/ciM3j+CKsqm0lYyvu2yuU5uB89E9VGVM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=Ipl/1tuo6roXdd0yh4jY0lb7cR1FMQXXOE85KvRSw5gGSSYt+lz+jkzMmffu65VMx VFC6x5jnIp8QnmAqHVWqJAJDLnLJpcW/4ZsBElnqH6F/zPUHr6dlkoeupYxu5Bi21v AaZQtMeUkNxKFP7EK4dsjRJvyVpVvJINFtElGlM5HMpA9sjiqPEC9OrepWRWMJV6Ok 48oP3siSMIeLD0O8DuptG1L7qWiASRDG5FKsVj4Ox3v9WxrosHyQlus9sSQPtKMu7g /GPePbegXgzs3UuglDwAbub13FX0zMRkZVZZ9Re95LIH0xlzd73rrRQWJcwKKcvcW0 7Wt489wKwemqg== Original-Received: from alfajor (69-196-163-239.dsl.teksavvy.com [69.196.163.239]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 21326120DBE; Sat, 29 May 2021 10:14:36 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878s3x4rju.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Sat, 29 May 2021 15:07:17 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:270065 Archived-At: >> Are you sure the facilities in info-look.el aren't a better starting >> point (or maybe even a solution) for the problems you have in mind? > > Ah, I wasn't aware of this. It's pretty much what I had in mind. > > The only downside of info-look (and I guess this is inherent to the info > format, or to long-form documentation is general) is that you can't just > pick a random collection of manuals to search for symbols. Instead, > there's a manually curated list of modes (via > `info-lookup-maybe-add-help') with recipes as to what constitutes a > symbol in that manual. Maybe info-look.el can be extended with: - a way for the user to specify (even interactively) a particular set of of manuals to use in a particular buffer. - a heuristic to find symbols in manuals without any manually curated description of what constitutes a symbol. Maybe that heuristic could then be "upstreamed" into a formally defined and documented Texinfo convention that future manual authors would be expected to follow? Stefan