From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: 23 Mar 2004 01:20:06 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403191747.i2JHlPS28017@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079997804 19501 80.91.224.253 (22 Mar 2004 23:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, eliz@elta.co.il, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Karl Berry Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 00:23:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5YlH-0004y3-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:23:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5YlG-0004Bg-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:23:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5YjH-0005Jx-6A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5YjC-0005JP-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Yif-0005D0-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:21:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.235] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5Yif-0005Cs-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 7586A47FE15; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:20:24 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20748 Stefan Monnier writes: > > info to include libc's index by default, you can just say `info strcpy' > > Although automatically looking in libc's index would probably work for > > 90% of cases in practice, it does not solve the general problem. > > Without reading the user's mind, there's no way to handle `info strcpy' > 100%, and neither does `man' handle it 100% (for the same reason). So what > you're saying here is not a criticism, unless you mean some specific > problem, but I can't read your mind either. Sorry I haven't followed this thread closely, so this may already have been said... I agree that it's difficult to make the right choice in general, but if I'm currently in a c-mode buffer in emacs, and I do (the equivalent of) "info strcpy", it's pretty clear from the context what I mean... -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk