Re: Help Menu
steven Mitchell writes:
Hey, thanks for the comments! I guess I'll go ahead and commit.
I notice that Current Installation Info and Send Bug Report don't
have
the keystrokes to invoke them after their menu items, is that because
these are not bound to keys?
Yes.
Also, 4th item down, "Info (Online Docs)" doesn't seem
to go on the
internet to find the Info files, why does it have "online" in the name?
Do they mean online in some other sense?
That term was probably introduced in the menu before the invention of
"gopher", let alone "mosaic". Originally it meant "immediately
available on the terminal you're using" vs. "offline" which you had to
go somewhere else for it. (Still does to us old-timers, I think, eg,
according to RMS's vacation 'bot, he still doesn't have a reliable
connection to the Internet. ;-)
What I have been wanting is a global XEmacs search that would all of
the
info files, and all the package info files, and all the other manuals at
the same time, and give me an exhaustive list of results, results that
would look like, on each line, a link to the file name that was
searched, and a phrase around the word(s) searched for.
There's nothing like that in XEmacs, and if you really mean a
full-text search, it would be very slow if implemented in XEmacs.
You'd need a serious indexer (I've thought about adding Xapian
bindings, but never got around to it). Just use Google with
site:www.xemacs.org.
The XEmacs info reader has a full list of Info files (in the Dir
node), and the code for searching an Info file's index is there (eg,
C-h C-f for the Lisp Reference), so applying mapc to an appropriate
function (which may already exist) and that list of files should do
the trick if you're willing to depend on the indexing instincts of
developers (reasonable for the core, spotty in the packages).
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