From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) Date: 15 Mar 2004 18:08:27 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403120124.i2C1OsS22697@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87znai8zuk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079371001 16580 80.91.224.253 (15 Mar 2004 17:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , karl@freefriends.org, Luc Teirlinck , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 15 18:16:27 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 1B2vhT-0001MB-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:16:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2vhS-0007Fh-00 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 18:16:27 +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 1B2veg-0008KY-Eb for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2vcM-0007Wj-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:11:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B2vbe-0007Db-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:10:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B2va3-0006lU-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B2vWb-0005Ze-CF; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:05:13 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 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:20506 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20506 Stefan Monnier writes: > >> There was a patch by Juri Linkov discussed in December that added > >> FORK arguments to several Info functions, > > I added FORK argument not to all Info navigation functions. > > Now I will add it to all of them. > > I think this is the wrong approach. We want a generic way to do "a fork" > without having to change each and every command where it might make sense. > And I now regret having abuse the C-u prefix for that. It should be some > other fork-specific prefix instead so the command can still use C-u for > its own purpose. But that is quite similar to the way that M-x shell and consorts work. It is convenient and easily rememberable. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum