Re: Listing patterns in the help screen
On Sat 2005-03-12 at 22:14:13 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:17:45PM +0900, Tamotsu Takahashi wrote:
> > I usually use my local manual, not the web.
> > But I think it is less convenient than the help screen.
> > "!less -p '~A' manual.txt" matches message-hook, not patterns.
>
> Sure, there's lots of useful stuff that could go on the help screen...
> In fact, why don't we make the whole manual part of the help screen?!?
> Or, I guess you could just hit F1...
While I am in the line editor that doesn't work (help doesn't either),
and that's when it's most useful to me. What about a patch that binds
the list of patterns to a key when you are typing in a limit, tag
match or similar (obviously binding it to '?' isn't a good idea).
That wouldn't make the usual help list any less useful, as it would
display a help where none was available before.
Bye,
Benjamin.