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RE: line-move-visual
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: line-move-visual |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:11:54 -0700 |
> A few helpful additions would be that (1) there would
> be a way for users to create such customization groups for
> distribution to other users. They wouldn't be hard-coded, like
> today's customization groups (apparently are).
Yes; see my other reply. It would help to make it easier for users to group
options (and faces).
> And (2) ideally there'd be the opportunity to optionally include
> extended user documentation in amongst the variables to give guidance
> beyond what one might find in the docstrings. The docstrings can be a
> bit minimal if what you want to do is explain the significance of
> various choices to a user who is only now encountering some new
> concept lying behind a variable.
That's OK, but it's the sharing of such annotations that is most helpful. Your
adding helpful info to a doc string locally doesn't help me understand it better
where I am.
It's helpful to send a bug report with the suggestion, so it can be incorporated
for others to see too. The problem with that is that the official doc must be a
one-size-fits-all, to some extent.
An alternative is to share your extra doc using Emacs Wiki.
One possibility might be (_might_ be - just thinking out loud) to have a doc
string link to an EmacsWiki page that details only that variable, function, or
whatever. This would be somewhat like a doc string link to the manual, but the
difference is that anyone can participate in any way in editing the wiki page.
Just half-baked food for thought.
- RE: line-move-visual, (continued)
- RE: line-move-visual, Drew Adams, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Juri Linkov, 2009/07/11
- Re: line-move-visual, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Scot Becker, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Lennart Borgman, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Sean O'Rourke, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Tassilo Horn, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Miles Bader, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Scot Becker, 2009/07/10
- RE: line-move-visual,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: line-move-visual, Ulrich Mueller, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Christian Faulhammer, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Ulrich Mueller, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Bastien, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Miles Bader, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Bastien, 2009/07/10
- Re: line-move-visual, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/11