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Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.
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Rasmus |
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Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. |
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Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:12:00 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Could I suggest [pcase] be promoted in the manual a
>> little. Currently, it's a subnode of "conditionals", but pattern
>> match is really a form of control flow in its own right.
>
> If that's your itch, feel free to scratch it.
>
> IMO, that's largely a waste of your time and energy: the manual is
> rarely if ever read in its entirety, or even in large portions. Most
> of its uses is to quickly find the subject whose description you need,
> hopefully by using the Info-index command ("i TOPIC RET"), and read
> that and perhaps some of the cross-references there. With this use
> case, the level on which a description is found is irrelevant.
But by lifting it, it would appear more prominently in the TOC. This
might cause interest on its own (I’m thinking about the pdf/tex version
here).
Rasmus
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I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets. . .
- The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/12/16
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Kaushal Modi, 2015/12/16
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., John Wiegley, 2015/12/17
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.,
Rasmus <=
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Rasmus, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., David Kastrup, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., David Kastrup, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., David Kastrup, 2015/12/19