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30.0.50; Consider changing info buffer names to info<(org)> rather than info<3>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 65905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:04:31 +0800
>>
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > Did you try using "C-h R"? It will find the existing Info buffer
>> > without your need to remember any numbers. Just type
>> >
>> > C-h R org RET
>> >
>> > I have dozens of Info manuals in my Emacs sessions, and I always use
>> > "C-h R" to get to those whose numbers I don't remember (which is all
>> > but the 2 Emacs manuals).
>>
>> But it's not the same thing, is it?
>
> It's not? I think it is the same. You wanted a simply way of getting
> back to a manual that you were reading earlier in the session, which
> you still have in some Info buffer, no? That's what "C-h R" does: it
> first looks in the Info buffers already present in the session, and,
> if not found, then looks for the manual installed on the system. In
> your case, the first step will succeed.
>
No, it does not do that. C-h R just prompts for a "Manual name: " in the
minibuffer, and if I press TAB, shows all the names for all the
installed manuals in the system.
>> If I open some manual recently and then forget its name, how do I switch
>> back _to that manual which I have been reading in the past hour but
>> which name I do not remember_?
>
> That's what "C-h R" does. Did you try it? If you did, how did it not
> "switch back _to that manual which I have been reading in the past
> hour"? For me, it switches back to that manual and to the same place
> where I was before. What am I missing?
It does switch to the previously open buffer, if I happen to remember
the name of the manual. But if I do not remember whether I was reading
epa's manual, or pgg's manual (similar features!), I have to go through
them by trial and error.
>> I also have a hack to show buffer names in window titles, and seeing
>> there info<org> is nicer than info<3>.
>
> If you want to show the name of the Info file on the title bar, you
> can modify frame-title-format to use Info-current-file in Info
> buffers.
My hackish script is doing that, but I don't want to cater for each mode
possible. Whey wouldn't a mode name it's buffers informatively?
--
Your sincerely,
Vladimir Nikishkin (MiEr, lockywolf)
(Laptop)
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