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Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening
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martin rudalics |
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Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:49:35 +0100 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
> What's an "ido speed-up"? What are "ido versions" of the find-file functions?
> If you are terminally curious, you might try it out, but you should not assume
> your users have indefinite time and patience. For many users, the amount of
> modes and features you could try out at one point or another is overwhelming,
> and those with obscure or hard-to-find features are going to go undiscovered
by
> most users, and waste the time of many who try them out only to find the
> features are not useful to them.
>
> Even just the following very brief introduction from the beginning of the
> "Comments" section in the ido.el source would help a lot:
>
> Ido - interactive do - switches between buffers and opens files and
> directories with a minimum of keystrokes.
>
> Like I wrote in my original report, it would be even better if the entire
> comments section of the source file could be turned into documentation. It's
> fairly detailed and comprehensive.
Sorry, I don't use ido and don't know what it does. I fully agree with
your remarks but am afraid that the Emacs development team doesn't have
the necessary ressources to fill your needs.
How about writing a patch giving all the details you consider essential?
You could try copying the style of a minor mode you like and whose
doc-string you consider adequate. You might even consider writing an
Info node for this - I think Kim would agree and give you any help you
need.
- Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, martin rudalics, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era eriksson, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Jason Rumney, 2008/02/25
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era eriksson, 2008/02/26
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/26
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, era eriksson, 2008/02/27
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/27
- RE: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Drew Adams, 2008/02/27
- Re: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Stefan Monnier, 2008/02/27
- RE: Documentation for ido-mode is not very enlightening, Drew Adams, 2008/02/27