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bug#68963: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Split Eshell built-in command documentation


From: Jim Porter
Subject: bug#68963: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Split Eshell built-in command documentation into subsections
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:26:08 -0800

On 2/6/2024 7:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 16:02:32 -0800
From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>

Currently, the Eshell manual lists all the built-in commands in one
section, which can make it hard to find the commands related to the
topic you care about. Here's a patch to split this into subsections of
various (loosely-defined) topics.

If people look for commands by using 'i' (Info-index), then finding
them in a single long section will be as easy as doing that in several
shorter ones.

The use-case I was imagining for this was a person thinking, "What commands does Eshell have for working with [say] directories?" Since those were previously interspersed throughout the full command list, it would take a fair bit of skimming past irrelevant commands to find the directory-related ones.

For looking up a specific command though, I agree that the current manual is fine.





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