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Re: locate-with-filter
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Nick Roberts |
Subject: |
Re: locate-with-filter |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:15:22 +1200 |
> I don't find that I invoke help-follow accidentally, so why remove
> this functionality?
>
> Because it effectively disables features that allow the author of a
> docstring to prevent false links from being made.
I can see the logic of changing help-xref-symbol-regexp: Emacs shouldn't
underline inappropriate links. However, if the user still wants to follow a
keyword thats not underlined, that should be his choice.
> Without the current
> `help-follow' feature, I could precede references to the symbol or
> program `locate' with the words `symbol' or (after Richard's patch)
> `program' to avoid creating the impression of encouraging people to
> take a look at the docstring of the Emacs function `locate' for a more
> thorough understanding of what I am explaining. With the current
> `help-follow' feature, doing so is effectively meaningless.
Clearly with `locate' the link leads nowhere but in other cases, the value of
a variable e.g features, say, where all explicit/underlined links have been
removed, some keywords may be of interest. Emacs generally gives you enough
rope to hang yourself and I like it that way.
> I don't like this change because the current behaviour is useful for links
> that aren't explicitly presented in the doc string/value.
>
> You can always do `C-h v' or `C-h f" to get the docs of something that
> the author did not intend as a link.
Yes I could but its not quite as convenient.
> If I use the expression
> "the program `locate'" in a docstring, thereby deliberately disabling
> the link to prevent confusion with the Emacs function, and you want to
> read the doc of that Emacs function anyway, for unrelated reasons, you
> can always do `C-h f'.
Yes. I'm sure `you're doing it for my own good'.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
- Re: locate-with-filter, (continued)
- Re: locate-with-filter, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/15
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/15
- Re: locate-with-filter, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/16
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/16
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/16
- Re: locate-with-filter, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/18
- Re: locate-with-filter, Nick Roberts, 2006/03/18
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/18
- Re: locate-with-filter,
Nick Roberts <=
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/18
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/19
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/19
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/19
- Re: locate-with-filter, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/19
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/20
- Re: locate-with-filter, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/20
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/20
- Re: locate-with-filter, Luc Teirlinck, 2006/03/28
- Re: locate-with-filter, Richard Stallman, 2006/03/29