Re: Better integration of the new Gnus FAQ in Oort

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Fri, Apr 11 2003, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, 4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de wrote:
>> What do people think?  I could add the buttons easily.  Can someone
>> give me hints on how to implement the "jump to
>> `nndoc+gnus-help:gnus-help' and go to ..." part in a reasonably
>> manner?  Or better send code. ;-)
>
> I like the idea, and I can write the code to get the article but I
> don't know how to do the parsing necessary to jump to a section or
> item number.

This was my problem too, but I though it was just my ignorance.  :-)
IMHO, ideally, we should have something like incremental search or `i'
and `,' in info.  Is this feasible?  Ideas?

Please post the code, even if the jump-to thingie is missing.
Probably somebody on the list will know how to fill the gap.

> I think we should also buttonize every instance of "gnus faq item
> [0-9.]+" (case-insensitive).  

Yes, this can be added easily.  The button regexps are
case-insensitive anyhow.

> That way, you can just say "see gnus FAQ item 4.7" and a link would
> be shown to the user.  

This would be similar to "in article <mid>" buttons:

    ("\\bin\\( +article\\| +message\\)? +\\(<\\([^\n @<>]+@[^\n @<>]+\\)>\\)"
     2 (>= gnus-button-message-level 0) gnus-button-message-id 3)

> Asking users to run Lisp code may be a problem for novices.

If we have buttons for such stuff in 5.10, novice users just have to
press RET or mouse-2 on stuff like (gnus-faq-search
"mm-text-html-renderer").  (And it's international.)  We often see
answers like "See `C-h v some-var RET'." even now---that non-Oort
users don't have buttons for.  And my impression is, that those
answers are appreciated by novices.

Bye, Reiner.
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