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Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts
From: |
Stefan Reichör |
Subject: |
Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:48:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (berkeley-unix) |
Hi Miles!
> Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:
>> Now you can hit f1 when a minibuffer prompt is displayed and you get
>> the function's docstring.
>
> It's kind of a neat idea, but F1 doesn't seem like a great
> key-binding to me...
Yes, I am not sure about that also. But the f1 and the C-h bindings
point to the same keymaps AFAIK.
I think it is important to make the help easy accessible.
E.g.:
M-x find-dired <RET> gives:
Run find in directory: ~/
Hitting f1 (with my patch) gives:
Help for find-dired:
Run `find' and go into Dired mode on a buffer of the output.
The command run (after changing into DIR) is
find . \( ARGS \) -ls
except that the variable `find-ls-option' specifies what to use
as the final argument.
> How about having the completion-help display code[*] do it:
> when showing completions, if there's only a single unique completion,
> show instead the help buffer.
>
> That way, you could either hit `?' after typing the command, or e.g. hit
> TAB a few times -- once to complete the command, and another time to
> display help.
>
I don't think, one can use '?' for the example above.
Or do I miss something here?
> [*] Probably not the generic completion-help code, but some specialized
> version used when completing functions/commands -- though perhaps
> the option of doing something special for completion-help-with-only-
> one-completion could be made a general feature for users of completion.
>
> F1 currently does normal help without a prompt in the minibuffer, which
> is a bit awkward; maybe it should just do the same thing as `?' in the
> minibuffer -- which combined with the above technique, would actually
> make it work the same as your suggestion... :-]
It would be nice to have a functionality like the one I suggested to
be built into emacs.
Stefan.
- Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts,
Stefan Reichör <=
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/13
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Miles Bader, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/14
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/15
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Stefan Reichör, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/04/16
- Re: Improved help from minibuffer prompts, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/14