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Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Would you say this information window is well designed? |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:28:41 +0200 |
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:23:47 +0200
>
> On 22.02.2021 20:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I won't object making something like that an optional feature, but
> > doing this by default is annoying, IMO: it's too much unsolicited
> > info. If, after reading the doc string, I want to look up the symbol
> > in the Info manual, I can do that with 2 keystrokes, I don't need
> > Emacs to show it to me unconditionally.
>
> The only extra info on the screenshot are the "View in manual" button
> (which I would imagine you find appealing, given that it will lead more
> users to read the manual) and the "References" section, which is not
> essential, IMHO. The rest are mostly presentation.
I _was_ talking about those two additions. (Though we don't see all
of the buffer, only its top, so more surprises could be below.)
> Though the "key bindings" section is interesting in that is also shows
> the keymap where each bindings resides. This would have saved me some
> extra debugging efforts in the past.
Each one of these could be useful, but not all of them together, and
not every time. It's too much. But as an opt-in feature, why not?
- Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/22
- Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/22
- Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/02/22
- Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?,
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- Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Joost Kremers, 2021/02/22
- Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/02/22
- Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/02/22
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/22
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Stefan Kangas, 2021/02/22
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Drew Adams, 2021/02/23
- RE: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/23
- Re: [External] : Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?, Peter Dean, 2021/02/23