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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version)
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Kim F. Storm |
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Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version) |
Date: |
23 Mar 2004 01:20:06 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > info to include libc's index by default, you can just say `info strcpy'
> > Although automatically looking in libc's index would probably work for
> > 90% of cases in practice, it does not solve the general problem.
>
> Without reading the user's mind, there's no way to handle `info strcpy'
> 100%, and neither does `man' handle it 100% (for the same reason). So what
> you're saying here is not a criticism, unless you mean some specific
> problem, but I can't read your mind either.
Sorry I haven't followed this thread closely, so this may already
have been said...
I agree that it's difficult to make the right choice in general, but
if I'm currently in a c-mode buffer in emacs, and I do (the equivalent
of) "info strcpy", it's pretty clear from the context what I mean...
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), (continued)
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/21
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/23
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/24
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version),
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/22
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/23
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Richard Stallman, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/19
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/19
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Karl Berry, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Eli Zaretskii, 2004/03/20
- Re: Documentation for "Clone Buffers" (corrected version), Miles Bader, 2004/03/20