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Re: [ELPA] New package: transient


From: Jean-Christophe Helary
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 00:44:07 +0900


> On May 5, 2020, at 23:48, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 17:23:24 +0900
>> 
>>>> Would you consider that a tutorial on the information search system 
>>>> provided by emacs would help in that matter ?
>>> 
>>> Maybe.  I don't think I understand well enough what would such a
>>> tutorial include.  You didn't say.
>> 
>> What a tutorial usually includes is step-by-step help with practical 
>> examples. I'll be putting that on my todo list.
> 
> If you mean a tutorial for the Info mode, then we already have it:
> info.info.  You can get to it if you type 'h' in Info mode.

No, I mean a tutorial on the "information *search* system".

>>> We already have some of that ion the Emacs tutorial
>> 
>> Very little in fact:
>> 
>> C-h t
>> C-h i
>> C-h f
>> C-h v
>> M-. → "requires running etags to record all the manuals nodes"
>> C-h p in a quote from the Emacs manual
>> M-x apropos
>> C-h a → the example Chassell gives produces 211 results
> 
> I think you are looking at the Introduction to Programming in Emacs
> Lisp, not at the tutorial.

The tutorial has even less information.

>>> and then we have the "Help" chapter in the Emacs manual.
>> 
>> The Help chapter provides a "summary of help commands for accessing the 
>> built-in documentation."
> 
> That's just the summary section.  The next sections describe the
> commands in detail.

I saw that.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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