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Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts |
Date: |
13 Apr 2004 15:57:58 +0900 |
Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:
> Now you can hit f1 when a minibuffer prompt is displayed and you get
> the function's docstring.
It's kind of a neat idea, but F1 doesn't seem like a great
key-binding to me...
How about having the completion-help display code[*] do it:
when showing completions, if there's only a single unique completion,
show instead the help buffer.
That way, you could either hit `?' after typing the command, or e.g. hit
TAB a few times -- once to complete the command, and another time to
display help.
[*] Probably not the generic completion-help code, but some specialized
version used when completing functions/commands -- though perhaps
the option of doing something special for completion-help-with-only-
one-completion could be made a general feature for users of completion.
F1 currently does normal help without a prompt in the minibuffer, which
is a bit awkward; maybe it should just do the same thing as `?' in the
minibuffer -- which combined with the above technique, would actually
make it work the same as your suggestion... :-]
-Miles
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- Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/15
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/04/16