Re: Info-mode patch

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Cc: juri@linkov.net,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:28:22 +0200
>> 
>> Anyway, if the patch is unnaceptable because of most of info commands being
>> reworked, then I assume it is not interested to continue with this, so I'll
>> thank for the valuable input and insights and wait with the excitement for 
>> the
>> solution.
>
> FWIW, I'm very interested in being able to invoke Help and Info
> commands without having to switch to a window that shows *Help* or
> *info* buffers, but I hoped the solution would be simpler, both in use
> and in the implementation.

The solution is conceptually simple, just not trivially simple :).

We have to take care of details with prompting which come into play when
multiple frames are involved. The patch is big, but there are lots of commands
in Info mode.

So is the usage. The point of the patch is to make things simple to use. I don't
want extra prompting, and I don't want to type C-1, C-2, C-u or C-something
before each and every Info or help command from other window neither, and I
don't want to have to move my mouse cursor manually because focus is messed up
by my window manager.

If M-i is my prefix key for Info-mode-map, With the patch you can either use C-1
M-i + key for command if you want to do something in say *info*<1> buffer, and
you should not be promoted or asked anything, it should just work. Or you could
(as alternative) type C-u C-u M-i + command key once, and then in all subsequent
uses, you can just type M-i + command key.

I am not sure how that window prefix will work, but I guess you will have to
type it before each command or you will probably also find some scheme to tell
Emacs to favour some of the Info buffers.

> Thanks for working on this.

NP. I obviously can't help with something I am not familiar with, like that
window prefix thing; but at least you have got input about problems involved.