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Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-dat
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date) |
Date: |
22 Apr 2002 11:58:55 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
>>>>> "Brady" == Brady Montz <address@hidden> writes:
Brady> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Hm, I use them all the time. My only complaint is that we only
>> have mouse bindings for them. I'd like to be able to type RET
>> on them. Bonus points if C-x o TAB TAB RET Does The Right
>> Thing.
Brady> I didn't say you didn't use them. Just that I haven't seen
Brady> many doc strings that take much advantage of them for the
Brady> "see also" purpose.
Brady> Taking my running example of sort-lines, It's doc tells me
Brady> about it's config variable sort-fold-case, but I had to do
I would say that's exactly right for a docstring.
Brady> a find-library sort to look at the source to find out about
Brady> sort-paragraphs, sort-pages, sort-fields, ...
That may be what _you_ resorted to, but besides Eli's suggestion of
C-h a sort- RET, there's C-h C-f sort-lines RET (output appended
below; taller than you would get on a 80x24 TTY, but the line
containing "sort-paragraphs" would almost certainly appear). My
conclusion is that we don't need to redo all the docstrings, but
rather to educate people better about the available help functions.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
resulting expression looks like this:
(sort-regexp-fields nil "^.*$" "\\<f\\w*\\>"
(region-beginning)
(region-end))
If you call `sort-regexp-fields' interactively, it prompts for
RECORD-REGEXP and KEY-REGEXP in the minibuffer.
- Command: sort-lines reverse start end
This command alphabetically sorts lines in the region between
START and END. If REVERSE is non-`nil', the sort is in reverse
order.
- Command: sort-paragraphs reverse start end
This command alphabetically sorts paragraphs in the region between
START and END. If REVERSE is non-`nil', the sort is in reverse
order.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), (continued)
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Richard Stallman, 2002/04/20
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/20
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/21
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/21
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/04/21
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/21
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/21
- Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/22
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date),
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/22
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/22
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/22
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/04/23
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/23
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/04/23
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/23
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/23
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2002/04/23
Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date), Brady Montz, 2002/04/23