Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming

[David Reitter]

On 11 Nov 2005, at 19:35, Juri Linkov wrote:

> > describe-bindings separates the different groups with  ^L even though
> > the text that is output is intended to be human-readable.
> >
> > Isn't there a nicer way the groups can be separated?
>
> I use (aset standard-display-table ?\f (vconcat (make-vector 64 ?-)  
> "^L"))
> to display the page delimiter as a horizontal line, and this is  
> very helpful
> not only in the *Help* buffer, but in other places too, including  
> source code
> buffers.

This would have global implications, right?
The idea with an overlay could easily work locally, and it's prettier  
as well.

> > Couldn't there be a list of all groups in the beginning, with links
> > going to the bindings belonging to the group?
>
> Like in the *Help* buffer created by `C-h m'?

Yup. That would be fine.
Outline mode, as suggested by Eli, is OK only if it doesn't require  
people to know some keys in order to even look up the keys.