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Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:38:03 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> >> Kim, is there a reason not to make bindat-pack and bindat-unpack
>> >> autoloaded?
>>
>> > Only that I envisioned that people would explicitly require bindat
>> > if they need the features it provides.
>>
>> Indeed. It doesn't seem to make much sense to autoload part of it.
> Yes, but can it hurt? We could put comments there explaining the
> reasons, in case at some point in the future doing so for the sake of
> documentation search will not be necessary.
It's not very satisfactory. Maybe we should simply mention the package
in the lispref.
>> Maybe we should begin by improving the C-h p answer.
> I'm for it, but IMHO "C-h p" cannot be a precise tool, because it is
> based on too small amount of info (a few keywords), whereas
> apropos-documentation has much more to play with.
I don't think it "cannot be a precise tool" much more than C-h i cannot
be a precise tool. But I agree that it requires a non-trivial amount
of work. It would be worthwhile, tho.
Stefan
- reading/writing binary data in structured form, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/04/26
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/26
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/04/26
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/26
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/04/27
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/27
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Kim F. Storm, 2008/04/27
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/27
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/27
- Re: reading/writing binary data in structured form,
Stefan Monnier <=