From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: call function in other window ? Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 15:48:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <0F7D0254-9A80-42BF-82EB-E09007BE3A39@gmail.com> <38f43e30-eeb0-427a-a885-fbd30d0d0d97@default> <26D747C5-FD5A-4810-938E-77DD21C6D2F9@gmail.com> <9D41C2D6-0361-43C1-A89E-7C4440B512B9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495374552 9949 195.159.176.226 (21 May 2017 13:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 13:49:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 15:49:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dCREH-0002RE-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 15:49:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCREN-0001Dg-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41379) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCRDQ-00017l-Rx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCRDN-0002HY-PB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38900 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dCRDN-0002G0-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 09:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dCRDF-0000xd-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2017 15:48:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzOOvOPdMxFcqMqBSGkOqKH++U0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113107 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > Yes, and it's also called reinventing the > wheel, when you don't know that the concept > of "wheel" exists :) Reinventing the wheel is not necessarily a bad thing to do. This time a"round" you may discover something useful. Also, contrary to what programmers seem to think, a wheel isn't a trivial implementation of a brilliant concept. A kid can find a flat, round stone and roll it to the fireplace to sit on. But the front wheel of a bike consists at the very least of a tire, a tube, a rim with rim tape, spokes with nipples, a socket with flanges, dome nuts, washers and cone nuts, and an axle with dust shields, bearings, and grease. > Kidding aside, for me, it is more important > right now to work on information discovery > than on writing a few lines of code that > I may or may not use in the future. There is no contradiction. Discovering Emacs thru code is a fine way of doing it. > Emacs is so huge that there is always the > possibility to just not find what is right > under my nose because the information is hard > to discover *or* because I would not think of > looking for it in the right place. Yeah, what you'd do is get some intuitive feel of the terminology, and then use `apropos' and `apropos-command', as well as the describe-'s (e.g., `describe-function') with TAB completion. Then check up what you find in the on-line help. ("On-line" as in not on paper :)) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573