Re: proced-refine: confusing doc string

[T. V. Raman]

This would definitely help.

I'm still at a loss to understand how proced-refine works --
perhaps because I'm running outside X? 

It's unclear how this thing is supposed to work on a text console.

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Blandy <address@hidden> writes:
    Jim> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Lennart Borgman
    Jim> (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:
    >> T. V. Raman wrote:
    >>> The proced-refine command has the following as part of
    >>> its doc string:
    >>> 
    >>> <cite> If point is on the attribute ATTR, this command
    >>> compares the value of ATTR of every process with the
    >>> value of ATTR of the process at the position of point.
    >>> One can select processes for which the value of ATTR is
    >>> \"less than\", \"equal\", and / or \"larger\" than ATTR
    >>> of the process point is on.
    >>> 
    >>> </cite>
    >>> 
    >>> The initial sentence talks about point being in the
    >>> header, the latter half talks about the process that
    >>> point is on. How can point be in both places at once?
    >> 
    >> Doesn't it mean the column ATTR (or however it is layed
    >> out, I do not know)?
    Jim> 
    Jim> It does --- but Raman is certainly not the only user
    Jim> reading it that way.  Should the docstring be more
    Jim> explicit?  Attached is what would make sense to me.

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Best Regards,
--raman

      
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