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Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying
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Miles Bader |
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Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying |
Date: |
Tue, 4 May 2004 18:35:17 -0400 |
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On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:58:35PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> Instead of using separate pages in the same buffer, why not use separate
> incarnations of the *Help* buffer. `C-h m' would display just a one-liner
> about each mode in *Help*, with a link for each mode (part or all of the
> one-liner) to its detailed description:
>
> Major mode
> SQL[oracle] mode: Major mode to edit SQL.
>
> Minor modes
> Font-Lock minor mode (no indicator): Toggle Font Lock mode.
> ...
>
> If there are no minor modes, just show the major-mode doc directly.
I think that the major-mode doc should _always_ be displayed. In most cases
I think that's what people are interested in, and _always_ having to follow a
hyperlink to get at it would just be annoying (and I think in practice it
would be _always_, too, as there's usually some random minor mode or another
turned on).
However, maybe it would be a good idea to separate the minor mode
descriptions as you say, and just include a hyper link that described them
(using the format I gave in my earlier message, with a single line at the
beginning of the major-mode description). There could be a [back] button at
the beginning of the minor-mode help to allow easily jumping back and forth.
That way it wouldn't waste any time formatting all that minor mode stuff in
the common case, and a user could even invoke `describe-minor-modes'
directly if that's what he was really interested in.
Hmmm, I like it...
-Miles
--
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- describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/03
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/04
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/05
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/05
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Richard Stallman, 2004/05/06
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Miles Bader, 2004/05/06
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Peter Whaite, 2004/05/06
- Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/05/07