Re: master 2a7488d: Add support for displaying short documentation for function groups

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Some advantages of using Info mode:
>
> 1. Info navigation keys and commands are available for navigation:
>    Info-next, Info-prev, Info-up, Info-top-node, Info-follow-nearest-node, ...

None of those are relevant for the shortdoc function, I think.  It's
just a list of functions.

> 2. Info addressing scheme, so e.g. such reference (info "(shortdoc) Buffer")
>    could link documents, or be sent by mail, and like URL could be visited,
>    Info-goto-node does the right thing to visit such generated Info nodes;

That doesn't sound like something somebody would do.

> 3. Info searching and indexing capabilities all should work with
> generated nodes;

An index into a shortdoc list sounds counter-productive: It is its own
index.

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