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bug#58892: 29.0.50; [PATCH] eglot-manual: Open the local info documentat
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#58892: 29.0.50; [PATCH] eglot-manual: Open the local info documentation |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:02:13 +0200 |
> From: Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com>
> Cc: 58892@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Stefan
> Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:32:39 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:05:25 +0100
> >>
> >> Eglot now has a beautiful documentation in info format. This patch
> >> let the user open it from Eglot's menu.
> >>
> >> BTW, the menu is the mode-line and I think it cannot be accessed using
> >> only the keyboard. Would it make sense to put this menu in the "Tools"
> >> part of the menu-bar as well?
> >
> > I'm unsure about any of this. We don't do anything like that for any
> > other mode, AFAIR. And Eglot's main features are already mentioned in
> > short in the Emacs user manual.
>
> Currently, Eglot has a menu item that opens
> https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot#readme. I think opening that URL
> doesn't make sense anymore since eglot.texi is the primary source of the
> documentation. Is it OK then to remove this menu item?
Fine by me, but please wait for João to chime in.
> It seems I couldn't clearly articulate my other suggestion. When I
> write this reply I can click on the mode-line to open message-mode-menu,
> but this menu is also available from the menu bar. I'd tried to suggest
> something similar to Eglot.
It's okay to display a "Minor mode menu" from the mode-line's mode
lighter, yes. We do that for other minor modes. But we should be
careful not to make that menu too long.
> (The last item in message-mode-menu is "Message manual", so there is
> prior art to what the patch of this bug report tries to achieve.)
I think that's an exception rather than a rule. Mode-specific menus
rarely have an item for their manuals. And Eglot should need that
less than others, since most of its features just provide backends for
existing Emacs features.