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Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Would you say this information window is well designed?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:28:41 +0200

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 21:23:47 +0200
> 
> On 22.02.2021 20:48, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I won't object making something like that an optional feature, but
> > doing this by default is annoying, IMO: it's too much unsolicited
> > info.  If, after reading the doc string, I want to look up the symbol
> > in the Info manual, I can do that with 2 keystrokes, I don't need
> > Emacs to show it to me unconditionally.
> 
> The only extra info on the screenshot are the "View in manual" button 
> (which I would imagine you find appealing, given that it will lead more 
> users to read the manual) and the "References" section, which is not 
> essential, IMHO. The rest are mostly presentation.

I _was_ talking about those two additions.  (Though we don't see all
of the buffer, only its top, so more surprises could be below.)

> Though the "key bindings" section is interesting in that is also shows 
> the keymap where each bindings resides. This would have saved me some 
> extra debugging efforts in the past.

Each one of these could be useful, but not all of them together, and
not every time.  It's too much.  But as an opt-in feature, why not?



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