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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation |
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Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:40:57 +0300 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:55:15 +0300
>
> >> >> Why the user should not be allowed to see all active equivalences?
> >> >
> >> > We can always add an 'all' argument, but most people would be
> >> > searching for the equivalences for a particular character, I thought
> >> > (I have no evidence for this, but it seems like the obvious use-case).
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be more natural instead of a special argument 'all'
> >> to add a 'char' argument that will describe the equivalences
> >> for a particular character, and when 'nil' then will describe
> >> all characters.
> >
> > Only if we believe that most users will want 'all'.
>
> Do we believe that most users want only describe-key,
> but not describe-bindings that describes all keys?
That analogy is lost on me.
Character equivalences exist for many characters, so showing all of
them by default is not necessarily TRT. I remind you that with
describe-bindings, we need to use outline-minor-mode to make the
result reasonably legible, for that very reason.
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, (continued)
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/25
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/25
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/07/26
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/26
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/27
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Robert Pluim, 2022/07/27
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/27
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/27
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/27
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/27
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/28
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/28
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/28
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/28
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/28
- Re: emacs-28 a866674b2a: Fix inaccuracies in "lax search" documentation, Juri Linkov, 2022/07/28