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Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jun 2003 11:38:21 -0400 |
> > > > 2 - (info "<node name>") is a better way than using `g' since the
> > > > `somebody'
> > > > can just click on it (or hit C-x C-e).
> > >
> > > That requires to use "M-:", which, I think, many Emacs users don't use
> > > (if they even know about it).
> >
> > Funny, I never thought about using M-: to evaluate it.
> > I'd only ever seen mentioned C-x C-e.
>
> You are nitpicking, Stefan:
No, I was just speaking to myself: I use M-: all the time (contrary
to C-x C-e), but somehow I never thought of using it for (info "...").
> > And it's a lot
> > more user-readable than C-h i g (you don't have to interpret it
> > as a command, but just as a special syntax).
>
> I have a difficulty parsing this, but you don't have to explain, since
> it seems like a moot point anyway.
Maybe it's moot, indeed. The point is that I find (info "(foo)bar")
much more readable than C-h i g (foo)bar. The first looks like
human language with a bit of extra annotations while the second looks
like line noise with a bit of human language embedded. More
specifically "info" gives me a hint it's an info page, while C-h i g
just tells me there's a set of keystrokes that does something with
the rest.
Stefan
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, (continued)
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/06/04
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/06/04
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/04
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/06/04
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Miles Bader, 2003/06/04
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/06/05
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Stefan Monnier, 2003/06/05
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/06/06
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Andreas Schwab, 2003/06/06
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/06/05
- Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Richard Stallman, 2003/06/05
Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/06/04
Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/06/04
Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Richard Stallman, 2003/06/05
Re: Divergence in menu appearance between Emacs Info and standalone Info, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/06/05