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Support #1314

Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate frame?

Added by John Abbott over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
In Progress
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Manual/documentation
Target version:
CoCoA-5.?.?
Start date:
11 Sep 2019
Due date:
% Done:

10%

Estimated time:
Spent time:
0.75 h

Description

Martin Kreuzer says he likes the manual pages to appear separate from the output of commands.
I can see his point, especially when the requested manual page is very long (and emacs automatically places the cursor at the end of page rather than the beginning)

It might be possible to make CoCoA manual pages appear in a separate buffer.

Discuss if this might be a good idea; and investigate if it might be possible to implement it.

Related issues

Related to CoCoA-5 - Support #1451: CoCoA Manual: make search keys publicClosed2020-04-30

Related to CoCoA-5 - Feature #1526: EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on?Closed2020-10-29

History

#1 Updated by John Abbott over 4 years ago

  • Related to Support #1311: THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019 added

#2 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti over 4 years ago

It could be quite tricky to implement.
Anyway, I think it should be a separate window, not buffer.
Opening another buffer could be quite confusing.

#3 Updated by John Abbott over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • % Done changed from 0 to 10

One possible approach would be to write the manual page to a file (perhaps inside /tmp somewhere), then open the file as a (read-only) buffer in a new frame.

If we choose to do this, the file name could depend on the manual page (e.g. CoCoA-Manual-XYZ), or we could use repeatedly a single file (but this would preclude being able to look at several manual pages simultaneously).

#4 Updated by John Abbott over 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate buffer? to Emacs UI: open manual pages in a separate frame?

Perhaps we need a separate process to show the manual pages?

A possibility is to run a whole separate CoCoA-5 session -- seems like overkill for just the manual...

ANYWAY this seems to be not entirely trivial, so we shall wait for a later release before trying to implement.

#5 Updated by John Abbott over 4 years ago

  • Related to deleted (Support #1311: THINGS TO DO IN GENOVA September 2019)

#6 Updated by John Abbott almost 4 years ago

  • Related to Support #1451: CoCoA Manual: make search keys public added

#7 Updated by John Abbott about 2 years ago

  • Related to Feature #1526: EmacsUI: help/manual for selected string -- or just for word with cursor on? added

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