Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; writes: > > I don't think we need 1. since XEmacs has multiple help buffer. > > I just don't know the best way to handle 2, so it describes > > function part only. Perhaps it should prompt for user to choose > > function or variable. Or it should do the same with FSF Emacs. > > The latter would be quite acceptable. You mean showing both function and variable documentation? FSF Emacs shows them in the same buffer.

XEmacs doesn't have handy way to do that. Using separate buffers is easy but popping up two buffer is annoying to me.

> You might consider implementing a context-sensitive menu that > enables the user to choose between function and variable > documentation. Also note that the same symbol can denote a face, > a charset, etc. More stuff for the context menu. There's no function to describe a face, a charset, a keymap. I think I should implement describe-face, describe-charset, etc. I think it is useful if C-h v emacs-lisp-mode-map makes link from #<keymap emacs-lisp-mode-map 4 entries 0x1449> to an actual keymap.

> > This patch will make C-h b a bit slower but more useful. > > How much slower? xemacs -vanilla (require 'time-date) (let ((start (time-to-seconds (current-time))) (i 10)) (while (> i 0) (describe-bindings) (setq i (1- i))) (- (time-to-seconds (current-time)) start)) With xref 1.878539085388184 without xref 9.501524925231934