From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:12:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46F2BA57.3060604@gmail.com> <87fy16q8kq.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87y7evbsan.fsf@leonardo.iesahin.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190693600 20501 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2007 04:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:13:20 +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 Sep 25 06:13:15 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 1Ia1nN-0000iH-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:13:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia1nK-0005sf-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia1n4-0005rm-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia1n3-0005rI-Jp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia1n3-0005rF-DH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ia1n3-0001by-2v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-4-11.inter.net.il [80.230.4.11]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id DSC63495 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:12:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87y7evbsan.fsf@leonardo.iesahin.net> (message from Emre Sahin on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:41:04 +0300) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (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:47826 Archived-At: > From: Emre Sahin > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:41:04 +0300 > > Yesterday I convinced myself that removing the "Mail" notification in > the mode line will help for less distraction. I started by checking > the documentation with C-h d, C-h a, C-h v and C-h P with words like > "mail", "display", "notification" etc. My intention was to find some > variable that says Emacs "don't show this mail thing." It looks like your keywords should have picked the variable, because its name contains both "mail" and "display". Can you try to elaborate why you didn't find it, and what commands did you use to search? > However, I don't think there is a silver bullet solution, like > changing the format or adding a "search all documentation" function > for this problem. Sometimes there are variables or functions whose name includes common words, and therefore searching for them brings up a lot of false hits, and you need a certain degree of persistence to not give up too early. In any case, personally, if a few search commands don't give me what I want, I simply look in the sources of the relevant package. I find this very efficient, since some variables/functions are simply too obscure to be in the docs.