Re: M-x custom: *PLEASE*, someone, have it build an INDEX (as in *info*)

[Kevin Rodgers]

David Combs wrote:
> Unlike most everyone else, I find "custom" basically UNUSABLE.
>
> (Actually, I'd much prefer a super-LONG edit-options -- at least
> I could run M-x occur on it, see where things were.
>
> This custom thing -- I have no idea where things are, how far
> down I have to go.
>
> Maybe if someone could code it to draw one HUGE tree (lying on its
> side, of course), but the current scheme doesn't work for me.
>
> So, an INDEX would help -- each one being a LINK to the thing
> it's about.  Custom would make the index each time it started up.

Why not `M-x apropos-variable' to generate the *Apropos* buffer as a
virtual index?  Then click on one of the links to display the *Help*
buffer for any variable, which has a link to customize the variable.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA