From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Some way to have cursor focus on help windows automatically? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:06:35 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <1192754215.200986.134870@i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192802955 27894 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 14:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 16:09:14 2007 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 1IisXJ-0000uQ-BM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:09:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IisXB-0000SP-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IisWs-0000Rh-MC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IisWq-0000Qq-Sl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:08:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IisWq-0000Qn-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IisWq-0004sf-8Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so1205986pye for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:07:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:to:cc:subject:references:from:organization:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=w7VBO9q5FIHQbF8W5BnitjYUHlTvl2I3kAtTIyLgTTs=; b=GWBXB6dNfmWGXf8z0L6ZucOYVyI1cVsGPf8o9vkNAPRYAgbsv0lbBQlgtlNgOCOtTJx97+K4OD3nMTsD2WA6vmxqygq14y02JUUrDpUEPSYHZ2kgBYQzOze7XHZjoS68WU0kIpLuyPm0GJMhEEFF5ji7A2r0zJdGf1D913VQ5fk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:to:cc:subject:references:from:organization:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=OmbqH6f/2FRDTB3ATve6OPA1CvKY6REpUoN9RW+kpmhAHfcadOWnuZn9xCuCTsyL0j45mXXI8HmAKM/ze4gYHr/mbh7s+Ikxku/0MFISyzTbE53k33oVnvn3+WlYks+4T9b9fCU7w7obNa6A0C03XwKNIMXtQ4qt8hR+FXv9KWA= Original-Received: by 10.35.87.8 with SMTP id p8mr2110613pyl.1192802826290; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ( [59.140.5.246]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y45sm2756883pyg.2007.10.19.07.07.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:07:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 15\:42\:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:48567 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > I'm not sure I understand you, but if I do, that's a feature. Why > would you want a window of half the previous window's size It's the default behaviour of the standard emacs help functions. I think developers have their points. > to show a help just two or three lines high? Thinking of that the docstring is often much longer than just two of three lines. -- William http://williamxu.net9.org